John Doerr

Mr. Doerr joined KPCB in 1980, and with KPCB's partners backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders. He was founding CEO of Silicon Compilers, a CAD software company, and co-founder of the first broadband cable network, @Home. He came to Silicon Valley in 1974 and joined a small chip maker, Intel, just as it launched the legendary 8080 microprocessor. He serves on the boards of Google, Amazon, Intuit, Homestore and Sun, as well as private ventures Good Technology, Miasole, Purkinje and Spatial Photonics. Mr. Doerr is a technologist and inventor, holding several patents for computer memory devices. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Rice University, and an MBA from Harvard University.