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DI FI CORRUPTION/CONNECTIONS

PART THREE of FOUR

In this part, we will begin looking at (only) a few of the people who were significant partners and associates of the Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm mentioned above in Part Two.

JOHN DOERR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr

“L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California.

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. “

[OF COURSE HE WAS!]

“As of July 2017, Forbes ranked Doerr as the 105th richest person in the United States and the 303rd richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$ 7.5 billion as of February 16, 2018. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters, a book about goal-setting….”

“…Doerr obtained a B.S. and M.E.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976….”

[RICE AND HARVARD - LOTS OF CONNECTIONS…. And I only hesitate for a micro moment to remind FReeQs that Rice University’s mascot is an OWL! (You knew I’d get to OWLS EVENTUALLY, BAGGIE!) ]

“…Doerr has backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com; and Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit…”

[IS ANYONE JOINING ME IN WONDERING IF perhaps Kleiner Perkins might be a CIA funding conduit for the Silicone Valley bunch?….as well as our intrepid California Senator and her family? Don’t be shy…. raise your hands, class! After all, we are ONLY wondering! ]

“…Doerr co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund, and TechNet, a policy network of high-tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California’s Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $3 billion in funding for California research into STEM CELL THERAPIES…”

[*SIGH* IT’S ALL FOR CHULDRUN. ]

“…In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund, DECLARING THE IPHONE “MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PERSONAL COMPUTER” BECAUSE “IT KNOWS WHO YOU ARE” AND “WHERE YOU ARE.” In April 2010, he along with other iFund members announced an increase in iFund’s value by another $100 million, making iFund the worlds biggest investment pool in the cell phone application industry.”

“HE CURRENTLY SERVES ON THE BOARDS OF GOOGLE, AMYRIS BIOTECH, AND ZYNGA. DOERR LED KLEINER PERKINS’S $150 MILLION INVESTMENT IN TWITTER….”

[I WILL LEAVE IT TO YOU TO LOOK UP ELLEN PAO, FORMERLY OF KLEINER PERKINS AND FORMERLY OF REDDIT. THERE WAS APPARENTLY SOME KIND OF DUST UP THERE. (She filed a gender discrimination suit at KP]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Pao.

OK…. continuing]

“…Doerr serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and ONE.org...”

[Well we know the Obama Foundation is of the malign ilk of many of the other Foundations we have looked at. One.org states they are dedicated to ending Aids. Are we really going to continue to believe that? ]

I looked up one.org:

https://www.one.org/us/about/
EXCERPT:

“...ONE is not a grant-making organization and we do not solicit funding from the public or receive government funds. ONE is funded almost entirely by foundations, individual philanthropists and corporations.”

[LET ME SEE IF I HAVE THIS RIGHT.... it is a place to park Foundation and “Philanthropist” and corporation big-money virtue signaler’s money. I’ll leave the speculation to you at this point. Q has spoken of Foundations (per Qmap.pub) - look at #491 and #53 just for fun.]

“Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live in Woodside, California, with their children.”

[THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF a prominent woman who does not have a Wiki bio, so they have red lined her name and presumably wiki is needing a volunteer to supply wikipedia with that data.]

“In August 2010, they signed the Giving Pledge, a campaign set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett to get ultra-high-net-worth individuals to donate their fortunes to charitable causes within their lifetime.”

[BLESS THEIR HEARTS. Doesn’t that just make your heart pump peanut butter? ]

I was able to find a little bit out about Ann Howland Doerr and John’s family.

In 2007 John Doerr made the commencement address at RICE U.

http://news.rice.edu/2007/05/12/doerr-shares-four-heartfelt-stories-at-commencement/

Ann was an engineering student at Rice. John’s professor played Cupid and pointed her out to him….he was too shy to talk to her. Then the Academic Cupid encouraged Ann to solicit help from John. They got together. They have two daughters, Mary Doerr and Esther Doerr.

[Daughter’s names gleaned from Ann’s mother’s obit.]
END PART THREE

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1,298 posted on 01/28/2019 10:11:17 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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To: TEXOKIE

“In August 2010, they signed the Giving Pledge, a campaign set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett to get ultra-high-net-worth individuals to donate their fortunes to charitable causes within their lifetime.”

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Wonder what those tax benefits, er, um, kickbacks amount to financially...


1,728 posted on 01/29/2019 6:11:56 PM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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