L. John Doerr was born on the 29th June 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA and is an influential manager of risk capital, working in the private equity firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers based in Menlo Park, in California’s Silicon Valley since 1980. There he works among others with such well known personalities as Al Gore and Colin Powell. He was inducted into the California Hall of Fame for his lifetime achievements in 2010.
How much is the net worth of John Doerr? Authoritative sources estimate that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $4.1 billion, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016. He is listed as the 135th richest person in the world according to Forbes magazines. Investment is the main source of Doerr’s net worth.
John Doerr Net Worth $4.1 Million
To begin with, the boy was raised in St. Louis, Missouri in a family of five children. He earned a Bachelor of Sciences and Master of Sciences degrees in Electrical Engineering at Rice University and a Master of Business Administration degree at the prestigious Harvard University from which he graduated in 1976. In 1997, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his outstanding achievements in the field of business.
Talking about his professional career, he joined Intel Corporation in 1974 shortly after the company introduced the Intel, their breakthrough 8080 processor. Soon, he became one of the most successful sellers of the company. Moreover, he is the owner of several patents related to memory devices.
Since 1980, he has worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he is now a partner. There he has been responsible for the financing of companies like Google, Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, amazon.com, Friendster, Go.com and myCFO. It has been estimated that the above mentioned companies have created more than 155,000 job places. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was also, among other things, responsible for the financing of America Online, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Quantum, Segway and Tandem. This list of companies which Doerr has been responsible for supporting in their early days, adequately identifies how John has made his money.
Doerr currently sits on the Supervisory Boards of such companies as Google and Amazon, and was such at Sun Microsystems, among other responsibilities. In 2009, he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. To conclude, his success in venture capital has made him famous, as he is considered one of the most important investors in venture capital in the world for the field of technology. Today, Doerr remains one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley.
Finally, in the personal life of John Doerr, he is married to Ann Howland Doerr; they have two daughters, and the family lives in Woodside, California.
He is regarded as a supporter of the Democrats, and is known to have hosted several fund raising events for the party. John Doerr actively campaigning for innovation in technologies related to clean energy to fight against global warming.
