John Doerr

L. John Doerr is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California.

  • Investor John Doerr is chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, formerly called Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
  • He joined the firm in 1980 after working at Intel and cofounding two companies.
  • Kleiner is one of Silicon Valley’s most storied firms, having backed Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Netscape and Twitter.
  • Doerr famously led Kleiner into Google in 1999, investing $12.5 million and transforming it into billions when Google went public in 2004.
  • Doerr stepped down from his role leading the firm in March 2016, ceding the leadership to fellow investor Ted Schlein.
  • John and Ann Doerr support free online tutoring site Khan Academy and climate change-focused Climate Reality Project through their foundation.

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