After Kleiner Perkins
- 20%Joined a startup21
- 13%Joined a big company13
- 67%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Kleiner Perkins most often go to Stripe, Coursera and Google. Of them, 20% go somewhere small
Not Kleiner Perkins's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 130 people on a map of 67,181, No. 182 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1300.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1915% of the people here
- Moved on
- 11185% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –fewer than 20 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few for a median
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Stripe (5% of recorded departures).
35 of 113 recorded arrivals shown, 78 more from 74 other companies26 of 104 recorded departures shown, 78 more to 66 other companies
How long people stay
33%<1y
17%1-2y
33%2-4y
17%4-7y
0%7y+
6 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
3313
4314
3315
8716
111117
141318
8819
151520
151221
221622
8823
8824
7425
4026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 131 joined, 112 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 88 scored99
Titles held here
- Engineering Fellow77
- Kpcb Engineering Fellow10
- Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow6
- Kp Engineering Fellow5
- Fellow4
- Kp Fellow3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Exceptional9 people
- 45%Strong40 people
- 39%Solid34 people
- 6%Emerging or unproven5 people
88 of the 130 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
49 of the 88 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 56%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
10%Titles that rose8 of 84 classified people
- 10%Rose8 people
- 61%Stayed level51 people
- 30%Fell25 people
84 of the 130 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley20.0%
- Stanford15.4%
- MIT10.0%
- Penn8.5%
- UCLA6.2%
- Brown5.4%
- Columbia4.6%
- USC4.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 130 people here with a school on file.
26 of the 130 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 20 list Stanford and 13 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
55 of the 130 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
61% of the people who have worked at Kleiner Perkins and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Kleiner Perkins
Everyone on the map
- 61%SF Bay Area79 · map 41%
- 30%New York39 · map 18%
- 5%Los Angeles6 · map 5%
- 2%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 2%Somewhere else3
All 130 people who worked at Kleiner Perkins list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Kleiner Perkins: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Kleiner Perkins, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 130 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Kleiner Perkins: 19 are there now, 111 have moved on.
- Most leave for Stripe: 5 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Coursera and Google.
- Most arrive from Google: 6 people. Then Amazon and Stripe.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Kleiner Perkins, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 13% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 87 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 88 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Engineering Fellow, then Kpcb Engineering Fellow.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 26 of the 130 people here with one on file (20.0%). Then Stanford (20).
- 61% of the 130 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 42% of the 130 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 8 rose, 51 stayed level, 25 fell, out of the 84 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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