John Doerr Quotes

• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that’s clearly a vanity phenomenon.

  John Doerr

• We all know about blogs and how big they are.

  John Doerr

• They’ve found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world’s great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

  John Doerr

• There’s this large trend – I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 – which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

  John Doerr

• The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

  John Doerr

• People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

  John Doerr

• It’s actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn’t losing very much money, it wasn’t making very much money, but it was growing.

  John Doerr

• It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

  John Doerr

• It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

  John Doerr

• Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

  John Doerr

• Green technologies – going green – is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

  John Doerr

• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they’re going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that’s better living through bugs.

  John Doerr

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Birth:	29th June, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Capitalist

About

L. John Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California. He earned a BS degree and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering both from Rice University. He earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1976. He joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. In February 2009, he was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. He co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund, and TechNet, a policy network of high-tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy.

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