About the Book: Another Way: Building Companies That Last…and Last…and Last
Dave Whorton was John Doerrs associate partner at high-flying Kleiner Perkins
Caufield and Byers during Silicon Valleys big shift. After Netscapes IPO, he
witnessed the VC industry pivot from a proven forty-year playbook of managing
risk to something much more aggressive: Get big fast. Dont worry about
profitability. Cash out and find another venture. And for a while, Whorton took
part in this whirlwind as he pursued his dream of becoming the next Hewlett or
Packard. It wasnt long, though, before it all got to be too much. Whorton
recognized that if "get big