John Doerr earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He joined Intel Corporation in 1974, and went to Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers in 1980, where he has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world, including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Amazon.com and Google.

Doerr serves on the boards of Intuit, and Sun Microsystems, among others and on the boards of private ventures, Zazzle, Miasole, Purkinje, Spatial Photonics, and Good Technology.