John Doerr joined Intel in 1974, just as the company launched its landmark 8080 microprocessor, before joining Kleiner Perkins as a partner in 1980. Over more than four decades at the firm, he led some of the most consequential venture investments in history: Amazon in 1996, and Google in 1999, when Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital each wrote what was then their largest check ever on a 17-page pitch deck with no business model. Beyond capital, Doerr helped recruit key early executives at both companies and introduced the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) goal-setting framework to Google, later documenting it in his bestselling book Measure What Matters. He stepped down from day-to-day leadership of Kleiner Perkins in 2016 and remains a board director of Alphabet.
Education
B.S. & M.S. Electrical Engineering, Rice University