Private Equity
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(Reuters) - Two of Twitter's earliest investors have left the company's board of directors, the latest change to the fast-growing social media company's leadership. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital are no longer on Twitter's board, the company said on Friday. The departures were first reported on the technology blog AllThingsD.com. It was not immediately clear what prompted the change. Twitter does not plan to appoint new directors to replace Wilson and Sabet, a source familiar with the matter said.
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2 min read · 18 August 2011
(Reuters) - Partners Jim Kim and Alex Kinnier will depart Khosla Ventures Aug. 15, leaving the firm short of two partners just months after it said it was raising a $1.05 billion fund, Reuters has learned. Both specialized in renewable energy, a focus of Khosla Ventures, but one that has been slow to reap big returns. Kinnier will start his own company, a move founding partner Vinod Khosla called "standard." It was unclear what Kim intends to do upon leaving the venture capital house, which has backed Jawbone-headset makers Aliph and biofuels company Kior. "Junior folks join for three years typically and then start companies," he wrote to Reuters in an email. "We have our core set of five partners and though we don't preclude junior partners becoming senior partners, we expect the majority of them to leave to
2 min read · 09 August 2011
