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L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. Forbes ranked Doerr as the 40th richest person in tech in 2017 and, as of 1 August, 2023, as the 146th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$11.9 billion. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters, a book about goal-setting, and Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. In 2022, John and his wife Ann collaborated with Stanford University to launch its first new school in about 70 years: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Early life Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri. One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis. Doerr obtained a B.S. and an M.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976. Career 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 patents for memory devices. In 1980, Doerr was offered a job with Kleiner Perkins. Intel president Andrew Grove told him, "John, venture capital, that's not a real job. It's like being a real estate agent." He joined Kleiner Perkins that year, and since then has directed the distribution of venture capital funding to technology companies including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, Macromedia, and Google. Doerr has backed entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of 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 of high-tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California's Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $3 billion in funding for California research into stem cell therapies. He serves on the board of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been listed on Forbes magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world. Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate change, and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007 TED conference, he cited his daughter's remark, "your generation created this problem, you better fix it", as a call to fight global warming. In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund, declaring the iPhone "more important than the personal computer" because "it knows who you are" and "where you are." In April 2010, he along with other iFund members announced an increase in iFund's value by another $100 million, making iFund the world's biggest investment pool in the cell phone application industry. He currently serves on the boards of Google, Watershed, Amyris Biotech, Tradesy, ASAPP, and Zynga. Doerr led Kleiner Perkins's $150 million investment in Twitter in 2012. In 2013, he invested in DreamBox, which has been acquired by Charter School Growth Fund. He had also funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc. Doerr is a major backer of the education company Remind. In 2016, Doerr stepped down from his role leading Kleiner Perkins, ceding leadership to Ted Schlein. Doerr mentored Ellen Pao when she first joined Kleiner Perkins. Before changing his mind in 2012, he was known for challenging those who gave her negative performance reviews. Doerr serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and ONE.org. Economic Recovery Advisory Board 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. Personal life Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live in Woodside, California, with their two children. 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 individuals to donate their fortunes to charitable causes within their lifetime. In 1997, Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business. In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2010, Doerr was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2019, Doerr received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. He is also member of the Global Advisory Board of Khan Academy. 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. The gift is the second largest to an academic institution—the first being Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University. It is the largest gift to Stanford in the university's history. Politics Doerr is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has hosted fundraisers for the party on several occasions. John Doerr was also listed as one of the founders of FWD.us in April 2013. FWD.us is a lobbying group primarily funded by Mark Zuckerberg that aims at lobbying for immigration reform and improvements in education. References External links John Doerr at TED Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the John Doerr popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Doerr books.
Best Seller John Doerr Books of 2024
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The Big Fix
Hal Harvey & Justin GillisA “smart, honest, and downtoearth” (Elizabeth Kolbert) citizen’s guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate.If you think the only thing yo...
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Selected Essays
Samuel JohnsonThis volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary charact...
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The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope & Stephen GillFollowing the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from...
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The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012
Laura FurmanThe PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories exp...
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The Power Law
Sebastian MallabyShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist“A gripping flyonthewall story of the rise of this unique and important...
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Up Up, Down Down
Cheston KnappIn the tradition of John Jeremiah Sullivan and David Foster Wallace, Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down “is an always smart, often hilarious, and ultimately transcendent essay collec...
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Summary of Measure What Matters
Speedy ReadsSummary of Measure What MattersHow Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs By John DoerrObjectives and key results or OKRs refer to a process that assists i...
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Summary Bundle Two Titles in One - Business and Biography
SpeedyReadsWanna Read But Not Enough Time?Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Summary of Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr and Su...
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The Visitors
Caroline ScottFrom the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one lifechanging, sundrenched visit to Co...
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Tales of the Pacific
Jack LondonIf you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight...
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The Life Of John Justin Doerr
Adam ReisThis book is about my Grandpa John Justin Doerr and his life story. I wrote this in Elementary school but, always wanted to turn it into a real book for everyone to enjoy rea...
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Measure What Matters Summary
The Summary GuyMeasure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs A Complete Summary! Measure What Matters is a book in which John Doerr, the auth...
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Two Brothers
Ben EltonBestselling author Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.Berlin 1920Two babies are born.Two brothers. Un...
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The Other Valley
Scott Alexander HowardSoon to be a TV seriesA Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024 Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four PickFor fans of Never Let Me Go and The Giver...
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How To Break Bad News
Tim MolloyDumped by his activist girlfriend when he won’t commit to her brand of idealism, reporter Scott Thomas sets out to prove his own dedication to dogooding. He goes undercover at a fa...
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Mide Lo Que Importa John Doerr Resumen
Turbo-AcademiaMide Lo Que Importa John Doerr Resumen ''Measure What Matters" (Mide lo que importa) es un libro escrito por John Doerr que aborda la importancia de establecer objetivos claros y ...
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende“Spectacular...an absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits...is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and futur...
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Greenmantle
John BuchanIn Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The ThirtyNine Steps, travels across wartorn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of B...
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How to Hack a Party Line
Sara MilesThe gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politicsSara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of t...