John Doerr Quotations

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If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.

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.

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.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.