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John Doerr

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Not to be confused withJohn Doar.
American businessman (born 1951)

John Doerr
Doerr at Techcrunch Disrupt 2013, in San Francisco
Born
Louis John Doerr

(1951-06-29)June 29, 1951 (age 73)
EducationRice University (BS,MEng)
Harvard University (MBA)
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseAnn Howland
Children2

L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an Americaninvestor andventure capitalist atKleiner Perkins inMenlo Park, California. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of thePresident's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn.[1]Forbes ranked Doerr as the 40th richest person in tech in 2017,[2] and as of August 1, 2023, as the 146th richest person in the world, with a net worth ofUS$11.9 billion.[3] Doerr is the author ofMeasure What Matters, a book about goal-setting, andSpeed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.[4][5]

In 2022, John and his wife Ann collaborated withStanford University to launch its first new school in about 70 years:Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.[6]

Early life

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Doerr was born inSt. Louis, Missouri. One of five siblings, Doerr graduated fromChaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis. Doerr obtained aB.S. and anM.E.E. degree inelectrical engineering fromRice University and anMBA fromHarvard Business School in 1976.[7]

Career

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Doerr joinedIntel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the80808-bitmicroprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices.[8][9] In 1980, Doerr was offered a job with Kleiner Perkins. Intel presidentAndrew Grove told him, "John, venture capital, that's not a real job. It's like being a real estate agent."[10]

He joinedKleiner Perkins that year, and since then has directed the distribution of venture capital funding to technology companies includingCompaq,Netscape,Symantec,Sun Microsystems,drugstore.com,Amazon.com,Intuit,Macromedia, andGoogle.[11]

Doerr has backed entrepreneurs, includingLarry Page,Sergey Brin, andEric Schmidt ofGoogle;Jeff Bezos ofAmazon.com; andScott Cook andBill Campbell ofIntuit.[citation needed]

Venture funding

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Doerr co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, aneducation reform andcharter public schools fund, and TechNet, a policy network of high-tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for theinnovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California'sProposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, andProposition 71 which created $3 billion in funding for California research intostem cell therapies. He serves on the board ofBono'sONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been listed onForbes magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world.[12]

Doerr advocates innovation inclean energy technologies tocombat climate change and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007TED conference, he cited his daughter's remark, "your generation created this problem, you better fix it", as a call to fightglobal warming.[13]

In 2008, he announced withSteve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 millioniFund, declaring theiPhone "more important than the personal computer" because "it knows who you are" and "where you are." In April 2010, he along with otheriFund members announced an increase iniFund's value by another $100 million, makingiFund the world's biggest investment pool in the cell phone application industry.[14]

He currently serves on the boards ofGoogle, Watershed,Amyris Biotech,Tradesy, ASAPP, andZynga. Doerr led Kleiner Perkins's $150 million investment in Twitter in 2012.[15][16][17]

In 2013, he invested inDreamBox,[18][19] which has been acquired byCharter School Growth Fund. He had also funded the initial investments inBloom Energy Inc. Doerr is a major backer of the education companyRemind.[20]

In 2016, Doerr stepped down from his role leading Kleiner Perkins, ceding leadership toTed Schlein.[3]

Doerr mentoredEllen Pao when she first joined Kleiner Perkins.[21] Before changing his mind in 2012, he was known for challenging those who gave her negative performance reviews.[22]

Doerr serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and ONE.org.[23][24]

Economic Recovery Advisory Board

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In February 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member of the USA Economic Recovery Advisory Board by President Barack Obama to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.[25]

Personal life

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Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live inWoodside, California, with their two children.[26]

In August 2010, they signed theGiving Pledge, a campaign set up by theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation andWarren Buffett to get ultra-high-net-worth individuals to donate their fortunes to charitable causes within their lifetime.[27][28]

In 1997, Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus ofRice University for his accomplishments in business.[29] In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences.[30][31][32] In 2010, Doerr was inducted into theCalifornia Hall of Fame. In 2019, Doerr received the Golden Plate Award of theAmerican Academy of Achievement.[33][34]

He is also member of the Global Advisory Board ofKhan Academy.[35]

On May 4, 2022,Stanford University announced Ann and John Doerr's donation of $1.1 billion to establish the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.[36][37] The gift is the second largest to an academic institution—the first beingMichael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion gift toJohns Hopkins University. It is the largest gift to Stanford in the university's history.[38]

Politics

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Doerr is a supporter of theDemocratic Party and has hosted fundraisers for the party on several occasions.[39] Along withMark Zuckerberg andReid Hoffman, John Doerr was a co-founder ofFWD.us, a lobbying group focused onimmigration reform, improvements in education, and scientific research.[40]

References

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  1. ^"Los Angeles Times article Who's Who on new economic advisory board".Los Angeles Times. February 6, 2009. RetrievedFebruary 5, 2009.
  2. ^"The Richest People in Tech 2017".Forbes. RetrievedApril 8, 2019.
  3. ^ab"Forbes: John Doerr".Forbes. Archived fromthe original on August 2, 2023. RetrievedFebruary 2, 2024.
  4. ^"WHEN JOHN DOERR BROUGHT A 'GIFT' TO GOOGLE'S FOUNDERS".WIRED. April 24, 2018. RetrievedApril 28, 2018.
  5. ^"Speed & Scale".
  6. ^Gelles, David (May 4, 2022)."Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331. RetrievedAugust 1, 2022.
  7. ^"John Doerr, MBA 1976". Harvard Business School. January 1, 2008. RetrievedOctober 4, 2015.
  8. ^A US 4096582 A, Paul T. Bailey; L. John Doerr & Robert M. Sandfort, "Field-accessed magnetic bubble mutually exclusive circuits with common elements", issued 1978-06-20 
  9. ^A US 3879716 A, Paul T. Bailey & L. John Doerr, "Mutually exclusive magnetic bubble propagation circuits with discrete elements", issued 1975-04-22 
  10. ^John Doerr, 2018,Measuring What Matters. New York, Portfolio/ Penguin.ISBN 9780525536222 Quote at p.33.
  11. ^Kaplan, Jerry (1996) [first published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1994].Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Bridgewater, New Jersey, U.S.:Penguin Books. pp. 301–02.ISBN 0-7351-0141-8. (hc.); (pbk.).The careful reader will notice that I was not present for several scenes in the latter part of the book. To reconstruct these episodes, I relied on the taped recollections of as many of the participants as possible. I am deeply indebted to several people – especially Robert Carr, Bill Campbell, Randy Komisar, and John Doerr – who gave freely of their time to describe these scenes.
  12. ^Loizos, Connie (July 30, 2015)."KPCB's John Doerr is coming to Disrupt SF". TechCrunch. RetrievedOctober 4, 2015.
  13. ^"John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech".TED.
  14. ^"John Doerr: The Next Big Thing".TechCrunch. April 6, 2010. RetrievedMay 7, 2022.
  15. ^"Kleiner Perkins investment in Twitter". RetrievedJuly 11, 2012.
  16. ^Hagan, Joe (October 2, 2011)."Tweet Science".New York Magazine. RetrievedOctober 9, 2011.
  17. ^"About Us – Tradesy".www.tradesy.com. RetrievedMay 7, 2019.
  18. ^Wan, Tony (December 17, 2013)."Netflix' Reed Hastings Leads $14.5M Series A1 for DreamBox". edSurge. RetrievedMarch 26, 2014.
  19. ^Cook, John (December 17, 2013)."Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, VC John Doerr invest $14.5M in DreamBox Learning". Geekwire. RetrievedMarch 26, 2014.
  20. ^Levy, Ari (August 23, 2016)."Ed-tech start-ups don't make money—this one's hoping to be the exception".CNBC. RetrievedFebruary 12, 2021.
  21. ^Kulwin, Noah (March 23, 2015)."A who's who of the Kleiner Perkins-Ellen Pao trial". Recode. RetrievedOctober 2, 2015.
  22. ^Helen Huet (March 4, 2015)."Kleiner Perkins's John Doerr And Ellen Pao: A Mentorship Sours".Forbes. RetrievedMarch 6, 2015.Mr. Schlein and all the other digital partners felt that way, except me. I saw it differently.
  23. ^"The Barack Obama Foundation Announces New Additions to the Board of Directors".Obama.org.
  24. ^"Join the fight against extreme poverty".ONE. September 28, 2012. Archived fromthe original on March 8, 2013. RetrievedApril 28, 2018.
  25. ^"Obama appoints John Doerr to economic advisory board".VentureBeat. February 6, 2009. RetrievedMay 22, 2017.
  26. ^Siegler, MG (May 24, 2010)."John Doerr to Charlie Rose: I use my iPad in church". Tech Crunch. RetrievedOctober 2, 2015.
  27. ^"The Giving Pledge – Pledge List". The Giving Pledge. RetrievedApril 29, 2015.
  28. ^"John Doerr – Tech Philanthropists". Inside Philanthropy. RetrievedApril 29, 2015.
  29. ^"Association of Rice Alumni". Rice Alumni. RetrievedApril 29, 2015.
  30. ^"American Academy Announces 2009 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members".American Academy of Arts & Sciences. April 20, 2009. Archived fromthe original on July 28, 2012. RetrievedMay 1, 2009.
  31. ^"[American Academy of Arts & Sciences] NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS, APRIL 2009"(PDF).American Academy of Arts & Sciences. p. 3. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on August 8, 2013. RetrievedMay 1, 2009. (see also the 4th entry on page 10 of the AAAS New members list for April 2009sorted by fieldArchived May 10, 2013, at theWayback Machine)
  32. ^"Rice Professor Naomi Halas, alums John Doerr and Karen Davis elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences".Rice University. April 23, 2009. Archived fromthe original on August 11, 2020. RetrievedApril 25, 2013.
  33. ^"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement".www.achievement.org.American Academy of Achievement.
  34. ^"2019 Summit Highlights Photo: Summit Co-Host Stefano Pessina, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, presents the Golden Plate Award to investor and famed venture capitalist John Doerr at the Banquet of the Golden Plate gala ceremonies at the St. Regis Hotel".American Academy of Achievement.
  35. ^"Khan Academy Annual Report".khanacademyannualreport.org. RetrievedNovember 21, 2021.
  36. ^Adams, Amy; Cole, Anneke (May 4, 2022)."Introducing the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability" (Press release). RetrievedMay 7, 2022.
  37. ^Knox, Liam (May 5, 2022)."Stanford Receives $1.1 Billion Gift for Sustainability School".Inside Higher Ed. RetrievedMay 7, 2022.
  38. ^Gelles, David (May 4, 2022)."Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331. RetrievedMay 7, 2022.
  39. ^Marinucci, Caria (October 7, 2014)."Dems, GOP holding mega-fundraisers on same street in Woodside". SF Gate. RetrievedOctober 4, 2015.
  40. ^Quinn, Michelle (April 11, 2013)."Zuckerberg group lines up pieces".Politico. RetrievedJune 1, 2024.

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