- PUBLIC POLICY
- John was co-chair of:
- California Proposition 39, raising $23 Billion of funding for public schools
- California Proposition 71, authorizing $3 Billion for stem cell research
- NO on California Proposition 211, stopping frivolous lawsuits and lawyers
- GREENTECH TALKS
- KPCB Greentech Innovation Network 2007– “Conversation with Al Gore and John Doerr”
- TED 2007 – “Not Enough”
- GREENTECH ARTICLES
- Time – “California’s Global Warming Solution”
- Forbes – “Blue Sky Project”
- CONVERSATIONS WITH ENTREPRENEURS AND STUDENTS
- Rice University 2007 Commencement Speech
- Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
- Haas 2005 Commencement Speech
- John Doerr’s Startup Manual
- FAVORITE BOOKS
- A World Lit Only By Fire, William Manchester
- Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunnus
- The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- How to Change the World, David Bornstein
- RECENT READING
- Einstein, Walter Isaacson
- Flu, Gina Kolata
- “DON’T MISS” MEDIA
- Thomas Friedman’s columns
- Charlie Rose
- Silicon Beat
- PRIORITY
- “Family First”
- HERO(es)
- Mom and Dad
- Bill Campbell
- Bill Joy
- FOR FUN
- Kids' stuff (trampolines and rock concerts), cycling, hiking, skiing, photography, surfing (the web), traveling, reading, music and messing around with computers/technology
- MESSAGES THAT INSPIRE
- “Where you live should not decide… whether you live or whether you die.”
- -- Bono
- “I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum.”
- -- Muhammed Yunus
- “ [Green's] opponents... named it liberal, tree-hugging, girly-man, sissy, unpatriotic, vaguely French… I’ve been trying to redefine green as the most capitalistic, patriotic, geostrategic, pro-american... green IS the new red, white and blue.”
- -- Tom Friedman
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
- -- Margaret Mead
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