I don’t think it’s hyperbole to call our PandoMonthly San Francisco guest this month a legend in the venture capital world. If there was a hall of fame of venture capital somewhere, John Doerr would be voted in on the first ballot. (Also, for the bulk of the US population, that’d be the world’s most boring museum…) Get your...    

John Doerr is a White House advisor, prominent billionaire, and Silicon Valley household name—at least among yuppie Valley households who care. Six years ago, he famously stepped back and forth across a TED Talk stage cheerleading "green tech," warning of global environmental disaster, and breaking into tears at the prospect. Today, he's bankrolling Mark Zuckerberg's dirty fuel campaign. What the ...

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Think John Doerr and his venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have lost their luster among entrepreneurs? Adam Ghetti doesn’t think so. “They are in it to win it,” says Ghetti, founder and CTO of Ionic Security, the newest venture to be backed by Kleiner. “I guarantee they will do unnatural stuff to make that happen.”

Twitter's Vine could be the killer app for Google Glass. They (should) go together like strawberries and chocolate. Yes, Google Glass needs a killer app. Beyond the breathless hype by white guys in Silicon Valley, what exactly is the mass market supposed to do with Google Glass? The most talked-about Glass uses, like augmented reality and instant data presentation, don't have obvious appeal outside ...