John Doerr

Investor John Doerr is chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, formerly called Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Doerr is the only investor to appear on Forbes' Midas List of top venture capitalists every year for the past two decades.

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

Doerr 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 the leadership to fellow investor Ted Schlein.

John and Ann Doerr support free online tutoring site Khan Academy and climate change-focused Climate Reality Project through their foundation.