John Doerr

John Doerr

L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley.

Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several engineering patents.

He joined Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, and Google, as well as Friendster, Go.com and myCFO.

He currently serves on the boards of public companies Google, Amazon.com, Intuit, Homestore, and Sun, and on the boards of private ventures Zazzle, Good Technology, Miasole, Purkinje, and Spatial Photonics.

His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been and is currently listed on Forbes Magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world.

Today, Doerr remains one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures. Forbes magazine estimates his net worth to be well over $1 billion. Doerr is a high profile supporter of the Democratic Party in Silicon Valley. Through the TechNet (lobbying organization) he helped found, he has devoted much time and money towards impacting legislation beneficial to the technology and venture capital industries.

Doerr has also invested heavily in "carbon trading" and is a big advocate of its use. In a 2007 TED conference he was brought to tears using his daughter's remarks on "saving the world" urging people to invest in carbon credits as a solution for global warming [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/128] .

John Doerr is one of five children. He is married, with two children, and lives in Woodside, California.

External links

* [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1278 Doerr on The Past, Present and Future of Google]
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/128 John Doerr speaks about 'greentech' investing at the TED Conference]
* [http://www.kpcb.com/team/index.php?John%20Doerr Profile] at KPCB
* [http://battellemedia.com/archives/004096.php Video - John Doerr interview with John Battelle]
* [http://www.kpcb.com/team/doerr2.html# KPCB Greentech Innovation Network 2007 – “Conversation with Al Gore and John Doerr”]
* [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1279&author=163 Google, negotiations and the merits of Mandarin Chinese] , John Doerr speaking at Stanford, February 2nd, 2005


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