He was the quiet ruler of Silicon Valley who kicked off the Internet era with Netscape and made $4.4 billion at Google.

John Doerr told "Global Entrepreneur": The next big opportunity is new energy to meet the needs of the global "urbanization" trend. At a time when China's venture capital industry is almost impossible to get hotter, John Doerr (John Doerr)

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At first glance, this thin man, who is about 1.75 meters tall, has a long and narrow face, and has an intellectual temperament, does not look amazing, nor does he speak amazing words.

He always wears a dark blue tie.

No matter where he goes, he carries a huge 50-pound bag with a Google logo in his right hand, and in his left hand, he only carries a very ordinary plastic watch and two wristbands worth $1 each.

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Sitting down, he spoke at a steady pace and concisely - this legendary person with an excellent memory for numbers, when asked by "Global Entrepreneur" if he could remember how many companies *** had been listed on the market over the years, he simply said

He spat out one word: "No".

Believe his answer or not, it needs to be pointed out that Doerr is probably the person in the global venture capital industry who has no need to talk about his achievements.

Since he joined the partner firm KPCB in 1980, no one in the venture capital industry has done better than Doerr in terms of consistently creating good performance and often investing in star projects.

In the 1980s, he made a series of investments around the microprocessor revolution, such as Compaq Computer, Sun Microsystems, Lotus Software, etc., all of which played a major role in the personal computer revolution.

In the 1990s, he took the lead in investing in Netscape, which ultimately kicked off the Internet revolution.

Since then, Doerr has become the most tireless advocate of the Internet industry, and even greatly influenced former US Vice President Al Gore.

In the late 1990s, he invested US$12.5 million in a sophisticated search engine. A few years later, the website called Google became popular around the world, and Doerr made a profit of nearly US$4.4 billion.

Putting aside the star effect of this series of landmark investments, Doerr's investment has also created a series of figures for KPCB Partners, where he works, that are the envy of all peers in the venture capital industry: KPCB has returned *** in the past 33 years

Investors exceeded $17 billion, with a total return of 29 times.

In an industry often referred to as "seeding and praying," its performance has been solid: the fund's annual return from periods 7 to 11 was 142%.

Over the past 30 years, it has made 475 investments in a row, of which 167 companies were successfully listed and there were 166 mergers and acquisitions.

According to the latest statistics, the total revenue of companies listed after its investment has reached 90 billion U.S. dollars, and the total market value is 375 billion U.S. dollars.

As a long-term core investor of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Doerr has received enough praises - "living legend", "Michael Jordan of venture capital industry" and even "god of venture capital" - but how did he achieve all this?

The answer is unclear.

As a private equity firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers receives little publicity from the outside world. Although Doerr has been interviewed by the media from time to time, most of the time, he only comments on a certain industry trend.

He didn't even want to appear alone in the photo, so that in 1998, the American "Fortune" magazine had to gather all the partners of KPCB and many CEOs of its investment companies to report and photograph him.

Unsurprisingly, when he was interviewed by Global Entrepreneur in China in early March, he gave an answer close to the truth on the topic of investment rules: “Find good entrepreneurs, target the big market, and have

Leading technology and a commitment to building an amazing team - and you can have a big and lasting business."

If you want to explore the fundamental causes of Doerr’s investment miracle, you need to do two things: read his memories (you will see a more complete version of Doerr’s investment experience in this article "Part 2: The Growth of a Venture Capital King"

) and watch how he acts.

During his short stay in China, in addition to being a director of Google, he met with Kai-fu Lee and Shaoning Zhou, the two heads of Google China (he quickly found the biggest key to Google's development in China: "It cannot be interfered by the headquarters like Yahoo and Amazon"),

He also met with 22 local entrepreneurs.

After only half an hour of communication with each person, he had clearly expressed his intention to invest in one of them.

The speech at Tsinghua University at 4 pm on March 2 was a very true reflection of his style: without even introducing himself, he began to let the audience ask him questions.

He can quickly simplify long questions, so that colleagues on the side can type the questions on the projection. When more than ten questions fill the screen, he starts to answer them one by one, still fast, concise and without nonsense.

"Come on, come up with a more difficult question, the kind that embarrasses me..." Duer waved his long arms and challenged the audience - the magic of this man who looks like a university professor is that he shows his emotions in every move.

With great vitality and extremely high efficiency, he can inspire others in the shortest time.

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