Meanwhile Galli was being wooed by Kleiner Perkins venture star John Doerr to join Amazon.
Even venture capital moneymen John Doerr and Vinod Khosla have lost track of some of their wealth.
Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr noted that that's more than four times the amount originally invested in Google.
Here is VC alpha dog John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, speaking at the TED Conference in March.
Question: Why does an ultrasuccessful VC like John Doerr, who calls himself a libertarian, support a tax-and-spender like Al Gore for President?
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.
He is known to be close to John Doerr, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has bet a billion dollars on green tech.
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.
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.
He saw Silicon Valley celebrities such as John Doerr grab the limelight as they proclaimed the Internet to be the greatest legal money engine ever created.
Mr. JOHN DOERR (Venture Capitalist): Entrepreneurs in California see significant opportunities to both do good and do well by innovating, by competing for new green technologies.
Waste Management is an investor in Harvest Power, as is venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins (home to billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr) and Munich Venture Partners.
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The vehicle for Chambers' space race is TechNet, a lobbying outfit he founded in 1997 with venture capitalist John Doerr and then-chief executive of Netscape, James Barksdale.
Billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Jim Breyer, and John Doerr join other rising stars like Drew Houston, Marissa Mayer, and Max Levchin.
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Within 48 hours he was in Aspen at one of John Doerr's executive summits, mingling with media darlings Steve Case of America Online and Kim Polese of Marimba.
Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr noted that that's more than four times the amount originally invested in Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ).
Venture capital titan John Doerr has never answered anything.
In the middle of the scrum: John Doerr, the 61-year-old billionaire venture capitalist who for years was the undisputed king of Silicon Valley, a Flipboard T-shirt over his button-down.
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It brought in high-profile partners lacking any real tech experience, such as Powell and Gore, while its heaviest hitter, billionaire John Doerr, was focused on biofuels and solar cells.
Indeed, leading venture capitalist John Doerr used to travel around the country hammering home the three top things that the government needed to do to catalyze a clean energy revolution.
Only one year into the foray, Joe Zhou, the Beijing-based co-anchor of the team overseen by venture honcho John Doerr from the Valley, left to form his own fund Keytone Ventures.
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If even Al Gore's partner John Doerr is now on record questioning the need for government assistance, we'd say it's well past time for Washington to turn off the subsidy spigot.
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To prove his good intentions Rogers has made repeated pilgrimages to Silicon Valley, where he's met with people like Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr and Larry Brilliant of Google.org, the search giant's do-gooder arm.
The firm's alpha dog and green weeper, John Doerr, is convinced that solar and cellulosic ethanol will see Moore's Law gains if you assemble the world's best and brightest minds to work on it.
So, for example, we've got John Doerr sitting next to me, who has been one of the leading venture capitalists in the innovation economy and helped to spur on the revolution in the computer industry.
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So he invited Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins to form a group that will share information on deals in companies working on software, hardware, apps or related technology for Glass.
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