John Doerr
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John Doerr

United States 75 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Venture capital
Residence
Woodside, California
Organization
Chairman at Kleiner Perkins
Education
Harvard University (Master of Business Administration)
Rice University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Rice University (Master of Science)
Marital Status
Married
Children
2

Assets

  • Alphabet
    22,349,000 shares @ -
    -
    GOOGL-US
  • Amazon
    23,383,000 shares @ -
    -
    AMZN-US
  • Bloom Energy Corp
    4,364,000 shares @ -
    -
    BE-US
  • Coursera Inc
    580,000 shares @ -
    -
    COUR-US
  • DoorDash, Inc
    830,000 shares @ -
    -
    DASH-US
  • Google Inc. (Cl C)
    15,824,000 shares @ -
    -
    GOOG-US
  • Intuit
    107,000 shares @ -
    -
    INTU-US
  • QuantumScape
    2,055,000 shares @ -
    -
    QS-US

Biography

Investor John Doerr is chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.

Doerr joined the firm in 1980 after working at Intel and cofounding two companies.

He famously led Kleiner into Google in 1999, investing $12.5 million. He was also an early investor in Amazon, DoorDash, Slack and many more.

Doerr stepped down from his role leading the firm in 2016, ceding day-to-day leadership to fellow investor Ted Schlein.

He and his wife, Ann, pledged $1.1 billion to Stanford University in 2022 to launch a new school focused on sustainability.

About

Doerr holds multiple patents for computer memory devices.

He came to Silicon Valley in 1975 with no job. He tried to get an internship with a VC firm and was turned down.