John Doerr

John Doerr appears in Ron Conway on Google’s Early History and SV Angel’s Role as the Kleiner Perkins investor Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted in Google’s 1999 financing. In Ron Conway’s account, the founders valued Kleiner partly because of its AOL relationship, not only because of capital.

The episode uses Doerr as part of Venture Syndicate Orchestration: Google wanted both Kleiner and Sequoia Capital in the same round even though the firms did not normally invest together at that time.

Connections

• Kleiner Perkins - firm context.
• Google, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin - financing target.
• AOL, Sequoia Capital, and Venture Syndicate Orchestration - distribution-linked round strategy.