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