John Doerr
John Doerr
L. John Doerris an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. As of October 2015, Forbes ranked Doerr as the 135th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $4.1 billion...
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It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
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But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.
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We always prefer that the money be used to build the company,
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We think these things can get to the world in scale in 2007.
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We're thrilled Roger is coming back home to the Valley.
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It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
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They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
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They must be offered at universally affordable prices to the developing world.
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The remarkable thing to me is they've established quite an unimaginable collection of great brands. Not just images, but brands.
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Cafe Press doesn't offer custom postage, just for starters. There are just not many people approved by the U.S. Postal Service to make custom postage.
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There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
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No conflict, no interest.
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If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
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Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.