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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