Word: kleiner
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...such as Hyatt family scion Penny Pritzker, Obama's Silicon Valley ally Doerr and two ambassadors from Wall Street, UBS's Robert Wolf and private-equity investor Mark Gallogly. This foursome and their spouses had collectively given roughly $2.4 million to Democrats since 2000. Doerr's venture-capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, made more than $1 million in donations to Democrats since 2005, and Ellen Pao, one of Doerr's clean-energy partners at Kleiner Perkins, gave $50,000 to Obama's Inauguration committee, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Gallogly, Wolf and Pritzker hosted a series...
...Intel engineer and went on to become a prescient bankroller of such companies as Google, Compaq and Amazon.com He later helped fund TechNet, the valley's first major Washington lobbying effort, and became close friends with then Vice President Al Gore, who has since become a partner at Kleiner Perkins. Doerr's enthusiasm and vision have been welcomed by the Obama team, just as they were by the Clinton Administration. In a recent interview, Obama mentioned Doerr as one of the corporate leaders he most admires. Doerr was also one of a handful of American executives invited to Obama...
...Around 2006, Doerr began to shift his focus away from the "bits and bytes" of the Internet to what he called the "batteries and biofuels" of green energy. As of last year, Kleiner Perkins oversaw a fast-growing green-energy portfolio of more than $600 million, including Silver Spring Networks, one of the largest smart-grid providers, and iControl, a company that makes Web-enabled home thermostats. Describing his investments as "missionary" work, Doerr stepped up his political advocacy for the energy savings they could generate. In 2006 he headed a lobbying push that led California lawmakers to adopt...