Portrait of John Doerr

Rank #108

John Doerr

Net worth $24.6B

Venture capital · United States

Born
Jun 29, 1951
Age
74
Source
Venture capital
Residence
Woodside, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Rice University; Master of Science, Rice University

Net worth over time

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.
  • 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.

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