UCLA Anderson’s Angela Hsiao (’14) beat out nearly 2500 applicants from 200 universities to become one of the five KPCB Product Fellows for 2014. Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers sponsors the program. The company also sponsors engineering and design programs.
"We actually had this idea since the beginning," KPCB director Andy Chen told Fast Company. "We built the engineering program first because that's the most visible need."
The KPCB Fellows Program offers outstanding students from across the country an opportunity to gain significant experience working on uniquely challenging technical, design and product problems while also developing new relationships that are meaningful to their careers. Fellows attend private events hosted by portfolio companies where they meet talented engineering and design luminaries from across Silicon Valley.
"We believe that young product talent is critical. Students now graduate with more and more experience under their belt. They're programming sooner and interning sooner," Chen said.
KPCB is based in Menlo Park, San Francisco, Shanghai and Beijing and invests in all stages from seed and incubation to growth companies.
Hsiao is joined by students from Dartmouth Tuck, University of Waterloo in Ontario, Harvard and Yale participating in the yearlong fellowship program.
Find out more at KPCB's program page.
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