John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Together with KPCB’s partners, John has backed many of America’s best entrepreneurial leaders, including:
* Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt: Google [GOOG]
* Jeff Bezos: Amazon [AMZN]
* Scott Cook, Bill Campbell: Intuit [INTU]
* Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla: Sun [SUNW]
* And the founders of Compaq, Cypress, Macromedia and Symantec
These ventures have created more than 150,000 new jobs.
In 1974 John joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. (He feels he was very lucky, in the right place at the right time). He worked in engineering, marketing and became a top-ranked sales executive.
John joined KPCB in 1980 and soon started Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and @Home, the first broadband cable Internet service.
Eric Schmidt calls John “one of Google’s best board members.” And Jeff Bezos says, “Doerr (and Kleiner) is the center of gravity in the Internet.” John has also been part of several big failures, most famously GO Corporation, chronicled by Jerry Kaplan in the book “Startup”.
John is passionate about green technology innovation and policy entrepreneurs to help fight global warming.
Watch John’s emotional talk about climate change and investment. Spurred on by his daughter, who demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for, he and his partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers embarked on a greentech world tour — surveying the state of the art, from the ethanol revolution in Brazil to Wal-mart’s (!) eco-concept store in Bentonville, Arkansas. KPCB is investing $200 million in green technologies to save the planet and make a profit to boot. But, Doerr fears, it may not be enough.
Photo by Neil Hunt
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I am glad to hear that there are people like John Doerr making efforts to promote green energy in a large scale. And I thought about things I can do as an individual to participate in creating a healthier environment by relying on gifts from the nature.
I have a store in Half Moon Bay called Sense of Peace, and after worring about global warming and rising oil cost, I finally took a step to do something about it. I am in the process of changing my packaging look with recycled paper goods as much as I can. Then I thought if every store on this planet did that, we will all be participating in creating a healthier environment.
Another thing I do at my store is promoting goods made out of bamboo such as clothing. Do you know that bamboo is farmed without pesticide? It doesn’t need pesticide because it has a built in antimicrobial agent called Kun which prevents bacteria from cultivating. Bamboo is fast growing and sustainable. Overall, bamboo seems to keep us and our environment healthy and fresh.
I wonder what other things people can do to make this planet more green?