John DoerrL

L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California , in Silicon Valley . In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board to bieden the President and his administration with advice and counseling in Trying to fix America’s economic downturn. ^[3] As of October 2015 , Forbes ranked Doerr as the 135TH Richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $ 4.1 billion. ^[1]

Early life

Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri . One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis. He obtained a BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976. ^[4]

Career

Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was ontwikkelingslanden the 8080 8-bit microprocessor . He Eventually became one of Intel’s most successful sales people. He’ll be holds verschillende patents for memory devices. ^{[5] [6]}

He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980 and since-then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the must successful technology companies in the world waaronder Compaq , Netscape , Symantec , Sun Microsystems , drugstore.com , Amazon.com , Intuit , Macromedia , and Google . ^[7]

Doerr has backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, zoals Larry Page , Sergey Brin , and Eric Schmidt of Google ; Jeff Bezos or Amazon.com ; and Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit .

Venture funding

Doerr co-founded and Serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund, and TechNet , a policy network or high-tech CEOs Advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy . Doerr co-chaired California’s Proposition 39 welke lowered the threshold to not approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 welke created $ 3 billion in funding for California research JSON voice cell therapies. He Serves on the board of Bono ‘s ONE campaign to fight global poverty, bijzonder disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has leg 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. ^[8]

Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate change , and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007 TED conference have Cited his daughter’s remark: “your generation created this problem, you better fix it” as a call to fight global warming . ^[9]

In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $ 100 million iFund , declaring the iPhone “more important dan the personal computer” Because “it knows who you are” and “where you are.” In April 2010, he Along with Another iFund members announced an increase is in iFund ‘s value at Another $ 100 million, making iFund the worlds Biggest investment pole in cell phone application industry. ^[10] He Currently Serves on the boards of Google , Amyris Biotech and Zynga. Doerr led Kleiner Perkins’s $ 150 million investment in Twitter. ^{[11] [12]}

In 2013 he invested in Dreambox ^{[13] [14]} welke has bone acquired by Charter School Growth Fund . He had ook funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc . Doerr is a major backer of the education company, Remind .

Doerr mentored Ellen Pao -when she first joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. ^[15] Before changing his mind in 2012, he was Berninahaus for challenged Those who watch re negative performance reviews. ^[16]

Economic Recovery Advisory Board

In February, 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member to the USA Economic Recovery Advisory Board to President Barack Obama to bieden the President and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America’s economic downturn. ^[17]

Personal life

Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. Way Down live in Woodside, California with hun children. ^[2]

In August 2010, they ‘signed the Giving Pledge , a campaign set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett to get ultra-high-net-worth personen to donate hun Fortunes to Charitable Causes binnen hun lifetime. ^{[18] [19]}

Awards

In 1997, Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business. ^[20]

In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . ^{[21] [22] [23]}

In 2010, Doerr was inducted into tje California Hall of Fame .

Politics

In April 2013, a lobbying group called FWD.us (aimed at lobbying for immigration reform and improvements to education) was launched, with John Doerr listed as one of the founders. Doerr is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has hosted fundraisers for Them on verschillende occasions. ^[24]

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