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December 2, 2011 12:00 am GMT

Former Twitter Engineering VP And Benchmark EIR Mike Abbott Joins Kleiner Perkins As Partner

As AbbottIn October, AllThingsD reported that Twitter VP of engineering Mike Abbott was leaving the company to be an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital (Benchmark and Twitter both confirmed the move). It looks like that position only lasted a month, as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has just announced that Abbott has joined the firm as a partner on its digital team. At Twitter, Abbott (who joined in April 2010) led the company's engineering efforts and helped the team from 80 to more than 350 engineers. Abbott's team mainly focused on rebuilding and solidifying Twitters infrastructure.

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