John Doerr was born on June 29,1951 and is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California.
24 Facts About John Doerr
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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.
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One of five siblings, John Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St Louis.
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John Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor.
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John Doerr eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople.
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In 1980, John Doerr was offered a job with Kleiner Perkins.
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John Doerr 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.
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John Doerr has backed entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
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John 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.
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John 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.
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John Doerr serves on the board of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa.
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John Doerr currently serves on the boards of Google, Amyris Biotech, Tradesy, ASAPP and Zynga.
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John Doerr led Kleiner Perkins's $150 million investment in Twitter in 2012.
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John Doerr had funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc Doerr is a major backer of the education company Remind.
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In 2016, John Doerr stepped down from his role leading Kleiner Perkins, ceding leadership to Ted Schlein.
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John Doerr mentored Ellen Pao when she first joined Kleiner Perkins.
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John Doerr serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and ONE.
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In February 2009, John 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.
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In 1997, John Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business.
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In 2010, John Doerr was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.
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In 2019, John Doerr received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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John Doerr is member of the Global Advisory Board of Khan Academy.
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John Doerr is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has hosted fundraisers for the party on several occasions.
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John Doerr was listed as one of the founders of FWD.