John Doerr
John Doerr
L. John Doerris 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 provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. As of October 2015, Forbes ranked Doerr as the 135th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $4.1 billion...
engineering cards green
I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.
business climate economy
If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.
venture venture-capitalists danger
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.
rights intellectual growth
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
bigs blogs knows
We all know about blogs and how big they are.
next wave users
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
technology people community
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
skills people long
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,
venture accelerate
There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.
jobs company
How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.
technology opportunity green
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
running google development
It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
mean ties fuel
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
next fund best-things
If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.