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Mercenaries and Missionaries
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Doerr views entrepreneurs as missionaries rather than mercenaries, and gives examples of both groups, including drive and paranoia (mercenary) and passion (missionary).
John Doerr Biography
John Doerr joined Intel in 1974 just as they invented the famous "8080" 8 bit microprocessor. At Intel, he held various engineering, marketing and management assignments, and was one of their top-ranked sales executives.

In 1980, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec.

John was the founding CEO of Silicon Compilers and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Google, Intuit, Amazon.com, Homestore.com, and Sun Microsystems. His privately held company board seats include Good Technology, and Segway. He holds patents for computer memory devices he invented as a design engineer at Monsanto. Recent interests include education, the Internet and biotechnology genomics.

John was born one of five children and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineer...
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series
2005-02-02 3min 38sec ID: 1274 Rating: 

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