John
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 sin...
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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, including
John
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:
John
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 with
- Ted Smith and Kim Smith, as co-founder of NewSchools.org
- Lezlee Westine, John Chambers, Jim Barksdale, as cofounder of TechNet.org
- Reed Hastings, EdVoice.org
- Muhammed Yunnus, Grameen Bank
- Bono’s DATA.org
- Steve & Jean Case, Dr. David Agus, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cures, abc2.org/, and
- Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute
John was co-chair of
- California Proposition 39, raising $18 Billion of funding for public schools
- California Proposition 71, authorizing $3 Billion for stem cell research, and
- NO on California Proposition 211, stopping frivolous lawsuits (and frivolous lawyers)
E-mail:
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