John Doerr

John Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins in 1980 and became one of the most legendary technology venture capitalists. His early investments include Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Amazon, and Google — the Google investment alone generating over $5 billion in returns. He introduced OKR (Objectives and Key Results) to Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, which he had learned from Intel's Andy Grove, and wrote "Measure What Matters" (2018) popularizing the methodology. Doerr has been a prominent advocate for climate change investment through Kleiner's green technology fund. His book "Speed & Scale" (2021) laid out an actionable plan for addressing climate change, drawing on his experience investing in clean energy companies and his belief that the innovation economy could deploy capital rapidly enough to meet the scale of decarbonization required to limit global temperature rises.