John Doerr

Chairman, Kleiner Perkins

$21.89B

$160M (-0.7%)

as of 04/20/26

About John Doerr

Investor John Doerr is chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.

Doerr joined the firm in 1980 after working at Intel and cofounding two companies.

He famously led Kleiner into Google in 1999, investing $12.5 million. He was also an early investor in Amazon, DoorDash, Slack and many more.

Doerr stepped down from his role leading the firm in 2016, ceding day-to-day leadership to fellow investor Ted Schlein.

He and his wife, Ann, pledged $1.1 billion to Stanford University in 2022 to launch a new school focused on sustainability.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Venture capital

Residence

Woodside, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

06/29/51 (age 74)

Number of children

Education

Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Rice University; Master of Science, Rice University

Self-made

self-made

John Doerr’s fortune is worth

365K

troy ounces of gold

337K

median U.S. household

219K

median U.S. income

0.438%

U.S. credit card volume

0.088%

GDP of the United States

0.064%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

He came to Silicon Valley in 1975 with no job. He tried to get an internship with a VC firm and was turned down.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | GOOGL-US

Alphabet

NASDAQ | AMZN-US

Amazon

NYSE | BE-US

Bloom Energy Corp

NYSE | COUR-US

Coursera Inc

NASDAQ | DASH-US

DoorDash, Inc

NASDAQ | GOOG-US

Google Inc. (Cl C)

NASDAQ | INTU-US

Intuit

NASDAQ | QS-US

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