“There’s a battle going on for the soul of the entrepreneur. It’s a contest between missionaries and mercenaries.”
Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr, who did more than his part to appeal to entrepreneurs’ mercenary instincts when he declared that the Internet boom was “the largest legal creation of wealth” in history, San Jose Mercury News, 16 July 2001
February 22, 2010 at 2:28 pm
[...] Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr, recycling his ’90s-era dotcom maxims for his latest startup scheme, Bloom Energy, 60 Minutes, 18 February [...]