John Doerr

Investor John Doerr is chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.The 66-year-old joined the investment firm in 1980 after working at Intel and cofounding two companies.KPCB is one of Silicon Valley's most storied firms, having backed Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Netscape and Twitter.Doerr famously led KPCB into Google in 1999, investing $12.5 million and transforming it into billions when Google went public in 2004.Doerr stepped down from his role leading the firm in March 2016, ceding the leadership to fellow investor Ted Schlein.