John Doerr Quotes

John Doerr — American Businessman born on June 29, 1951,

L. John Doerr is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February 2009, Doerr 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. As of October 2015, Forbes ranked Doerr as the 135th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $4.1 billion... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

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

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