#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors

Guest: John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins In this episode, we cover: John’s two books — Measure What Matters and Speed & Scale — and applying OKRs to the climate crisis (02:45); How John got to Silicon Valley and what he learned from his entrepreneurial father, Lou (09:00); “I didn’t want to be in venture capital” (16:28); Joining Kleiner Perkins at the dawn of personal computing (20:05); The internet, cloud computing, smartphones, and the next big tech wave: AI (24:53); How John met Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (29:48); Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and teaming up with Mike Moritz from Sequoia (38:29); John’s friendship with Steve Jobs and the creation of the $100 million iFund for iPhone apps (45:20); “Family first” and setting personal OKRs (50:14); Working with Bill Gates outside of Kleiner Perkins (52:53); Brian Roberts, Comcast, and hustling to make at-home broadband nationwide (59:30)