How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

February 21, 2022

Duration

30m

Channel

The Twenty Minute VC

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

John Doerr is an engineer, venture capitalist, the chairman of Kleiner Perkins, and the author of the #1 New York Times best-seller Measure What Matters. For over 40 years, John has helped build some of the most generational defining companies of our generation. He was an original investor and board member at Google and Amazon, helping to create more than a million jobs. A pioneer of Silicon Valley’s cleantech movement, John has invested in zero emissions technologies since 2006. Check out his latest book, Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode with John Doerr You Will Learn: 1.) What was John’s entry into climate change investing? Having backed the likes of Amazon and Google, why did John decide then was the right time to do a climate fund, a pandemic fund, an iPhone fund? How does John think about market timing risk today? How does John determine between risks he is vs is not willing to take? 2.) What was one of John’s biggest lessons on risk and upside from working alongside Tom Perkins? How did the Google deal come together? Where did John first meet Larry and Serge? What convinced John to write them a $12M check for 12% of the company? Why was it a contested deal within the partnership? How did the discussion go internally? 3.) Why and how is climate innovating and investing different today than it was in 2008? What are the core OKR’s laid out in the book, that we need to achieve as a society? Why does John believe that governments are the biggest problem to us achieving these objectives? What does John mean when he says, “I am hopeful but not optimistic”? 4.) What does truly great listening mean to John? How would John describe his style of board membership? What do the truly special board members do? What does John do that makes him often cited as one of the best at recruiting? What is John’s biggest investing miss? How did it change his mindset and approach? What investment is John most proud of, that no one knows? ------------------------------------------------------------------- For more 20VC, check out the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twenty-minute-vc-venture-capital-startup-funding/id958230465 ------------------------------------------------------------------- #JohnDoerr #KleinerPerkins #20VC #VentureCapital #HarryStebbings

🎤 SPEAKERS

• John Doerr

  guest

• Harry Stebbings

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, featuring John Doerr and Harry Stebbings, How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview explores vC Legend John Doerr Maps Venture-Backed Plan To Solve Climate John Doerr discusses his shift from backing iconic tech companies like Google and Amazon to focusing heavily on climate, energy, and pandemic preparedness, explaining both the financial outcomes and hard lessons from early cleantech investing.

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