Word: doerr
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Here at TIME Digital we may be celebrating venture capitalist John Doerr as Number 16 on our latest annual ranking of the digital elite. But investors are gleefully betting that one of his biggest deals of the year is about to unravel...
...announced that it was using its amped stock to merge with the Yahoo-wannabe Excite. The match was hailed as a commonsense combination of access and content -- "The Media Network of the Next Century" -- and the value of the two companies soared on the prospect of a broadband portal. Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins was at the center of the deal, having helped launch both companies (which not so coincidentally were across the street from each other in Redwood City, California). More...
...years and more than a billion dollars later, that quick wit and peculiar go-for-the-jugular charm are still predominant in the man who was hired to pilot Netscape through Microsoft-infested waters--and who, on the witness stand, is proving to be Bill Gates' worst enemy. John Doerr, the venture capitalist and Johnny Appleseed of Silicon Valley who helped recruit Barksdale, refers to him as the "gold standard of CEOs...
...quits, Barksdale needed one last bite of the apple: he wanted to finally be top dog somewhere. That's why, when a headhunter called to see if he was interested in applying for a job as fourth man out at nearby Microsoft, he declined. And that's why, when Doerr called to see if he was interested in running a company that was building a piece of software called a browser that just might change the world--or at least the World Wide Web--he jumped...
...demanding. The people (mostly men) who work for him have inherited (and enforce) an engineer's creed that brings a bloodless "just fix it" intensity to everything from human relations to fabrication. "When I was at Intel, one of the most important values was discipline," says venture capitalist John Doerr, who worked for the firm for six years in the 1970s. "Andy Grove had no tolerance for people who were late or meetings that ran on without a purpose. It wasn't that he was a hard ass; it's just the nature of their business. There's no room...