John Doerr is a prominent American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, California.
He has advised presidents on economic recovery, was recognized as the 40th Richest in Tech in 2017 and has a net worth of $9.8 billion as of 2023.
He is known for backing tech giants like Google, Amazon and Intuit and he also co-founded the New Schools Venture Fund and TechNet and serves on the board of Bono’s ONE campaign.
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He is an advocate for clean energy and has written extensively on climate change.
In 2022, Doerr and his wife Ann donated $1.1 billion to Stanford University to establish the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
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Now stepped back from leadership at Kleiner Perkins, he remains on several boards including Google and the Obama Foundation.
I have listed below the top quotes by John Doerr below.
Best John Doerr Quotes
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1. “Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.” ~ (John Doerr).
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2. “No conflict, no interest.” ~ (John Doerr).
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3. “Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.” ~ (John Doerr).
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4. “Act now. Act with speed.” ~ (John Doerr).
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5. “Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.” ~ (John Doerr).
Top John Doerr Quotes
6. “The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.” ~ (John Doerr).
7. “If you can’t invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.” ~ (John Doerr).
8. “Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.” ~ (John Doerr).
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9. “Change the way we teach; Empower teachers.” ~ (John Doerr).
10. “People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.” ~ (John Doerr).
Famous John Doerr Quotes
11. “How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that’s good.” ~ (John Doerr).
12. “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).
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13. “There’s never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.” ~ (John Doerr).
14. “If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.” ~ (John Doerr).
15. “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).
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16. “You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.” ~ (John Doerr).
17. “We all know about blogs and how big they are.” ~ (John Doerr).
18. “Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that’s clearly a vanity phenomenon.” ~ (John Doerr).
19. “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).