Then five years later, Doerr met Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and later invested.
Developers such as Path and Twitter are already very interested in developing for Glass, Doerr said.
Meanwhile Galli was being wooed by Kleiner Perkins venture star John Doerr to join Amazon.
It should come as no surprise that Amazon is an investor in Doerr's fund.
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Scrambling for a solution, Doerr and the Flipboard team devised an invite system to limit incoming users.
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"The Web is getting ever more personalized and fragmented, and Zazzle takes advantage of this, " Doerr says.
Even venture capital moneymen John Doerr and Vinod Khosla have lost track of some of their wealth.
Doerr is best known for being an early Internet backer with Netscape, Amazon, and later Google.
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Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr noted that that's more than four times the amount originally invested in Google.
Pushing all the global warming fear buttons, Doerr outdoes his friend Al Gore.
He has funded his brother Tom Doerr, a physician who has developed an electronic health record (EHR) for small practices.
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Now with Google Glass, Doerr says, you can not only see that but you can be immersed in that data.
Six billion people will move to cities over the next 20 years, almost all of them in Asia, said Doerr.
One reason: High taxes on individual investors and corporations make life cozy for Doerr, who raises his funds from the tax-free.
Doerr is known for being the backer of Google and Amazon.com, and for his teary performances at the TED conference.
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Here is VC alpha dog John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, speaking at the TED Conference in March.
Doerr met Andreessen about 20 years ago when he was starting the Mosaic browser, which would become Netscape, a Kleiner investment.
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Lower-profile and less loquacious than John Doerr, his headline-happy partner, Khosla has rivaled Doerr's impressive record in 15 years in the business.
In interviews and so forth, Doerr has been generous to me, personally.
Both Gates and Doerr have long been big supporters of education causes.
He is known to be close to John Doerr, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has bet a billion dollars on green tech.
" Mr. Fisher confides that he does "not believe this letter should be sent, " and notes that "Mr. Doerr is visiting Jonathan next Tuesday.
And there were three Kleiner partners there, all in different meetings, all on different initiatives ( Doerr, partner Chi-Hua Chien and recruiting partner Jordan Ormont).
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With days remaining for donors to come forward, Doerr and the No on 23 camp lead the way in donations, but watch this space.
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In a recent interview with the Journal, Kleiner partner John Doerr said that the revenues of companies in Kleiner's green portfolio are rising rapidly.
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Joe Galli feels like he has come home again, walking stores and factories far from the digital fantasyland occupied by Jeff Bezos and John Doerr.
At No. 1, do you like Bobby Doerr's six 100-RBI seasons, Richie Ashburn's or Tommy Holmes' .300 career averages or Ozzie Smith's 13 Gold Gloves?
Ms Polese has the personal blessing of John Doerr, the boss of Kleiner Perkins, who is seen as someone who can make and break careers.
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