Zazzle.com — Kleiner Perkins and Google board member Ram Shriram invested $16 million in the series A round of this Menlo Park, Calif. startup, which provides a marketplace for buying and selling custom goods on the Internet. Consumers can use the site to design a custom T-shirt, poster, print, or card and make money every time it sells. Zazzle was founded in 1999 and launched its service in 2003. Kleiner Perkins managing partner John Doerr and Shriram serve on the board. (From Deal Flow)
For the uninitiated: This is notable because John Doerr is arguably the most successful venture capitalist around (backed Sun, Amazon, Netscape, the list goes on). He and Shriram invested in Google together.
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