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John Doerr
Venture capitalist, Kleiner Perkins
Venture capitalist and technology investor associated with early backing of companies including Google and Amazon.
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Books by John Doerr
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How Google Works
As Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg observed in their book How Google Works...
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When John Doerr Brought a “Gift” to Google’s Founders
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WIRED · 2018-04-24 · accessed 2026-06-22
The WIRED excerpt is adapted from Doerr's Measure What Matters and directly names How Google Works as a book by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg.