TOM PERKINS ON-WHO ELSE?-T0M PERKINS

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In case you didn't catch it the first time around, former Hewlett-Packard director Tom Perkins -co - founder of venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers-says it once more with feeling: He thinks former HP chair Patricia Dunn was bad at her job. Perkins devotes the opening chapter of his memoir, Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins (Penguin), to Dunn. "Why not start with what the average reader associates my name with?" he told Business Week. Dunn, he writes in Valley Boy, was obsessed with rules at the expense of strategy—an obsession that led to her probe into board leaks and to the now infamous "pretexting" that prompted him to quit. (Dunn deniedrnknowledge of the practice, by which directors' and reporters' phone records were obtained under false pretenses.)