John Doerr

Who is John Doerr?

John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. He’s

optimistic, enthusiastic and energetic. John joined KPCB in 1980, and

with KPCB’s partners backed many of America’s best entrepreneurial

leaders, includingLarry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt: Google [GOOG]Jeff Bezos: Amazon [AMZN]Scott Cook, Bill Campbell: Intuit [INTU]Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla: Sun [SUNW]And many othersJohn

was founding CEO of Silicon Compilers, a CAD software company; and

co-founder of the first broadband cable network, @Home. He came to

Silicon Valley in 1974 and joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as

they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. (He feels lucky he was

in the right place, at the right time.) He worked in engineering,

marketing, and sales, where he was a top-ranked sales executive.John

Chambers described John as “the single best venture capitalist in the

world.” Eric Schmidt called him “one of Google’s best board members.”

And Jeff Bezos said, “Doerr {and Kleiner} is the center of gravity in

the internet.”He has also been part of several big failures, most famously GO Corporation, chronicled by Jerry Kaplan in the book “Startup”.John serves on the boards of Google, Amazon, Intuit, Homestore, and Sun. And also private ventures Good Technology, Miasole, Purkinje, Spatial Photonics.He is passionately encouraging innovators to prevent pandemic avian flu and global infectious disease.John

is a technologist and inventor, holding patents for computer memory

devices. He earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice

University, and an MBA from Harvard.John enjoys conversations with students and entrepreneurs, including:Haas Commencement SpeechStanford ETLJohn

also cares a lot about public education, global poverty/health,

research and innovation, science (not “intelligent design”) and women

as leaders. He is backing social and policy entrepreneurs, working withTed Smith and Kim Smith, as co-founder of NewSchools.orgLezlee Westine, John Chambers, Jim Barksdale, as cofounder of TechNet.orgReed Hastings, EdVoice.orgMuhammed Yunnus, Grameen BankBono’s DATA.orgSteve Jean Case, Dr. David Agus, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cures, abc2.org/, andWalter Isaacson, Aspen InstituteJohn was co-chair ofCalifornia Proposition 39, raising $18 Billion of funding for public schoolsCalifornia Proposition 71, authorizing $3 Billion for stem cell research, andNO on California Proposition 211, stopping frivolous lawsuits (and frivolous lawyers)E-mail:johnd@kpcb.comLearn more about John