John Doerr
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.Collection: Environmental
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.Collection: Technology
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
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.
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
We all know about blogs and how big they are.
They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
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.
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.Collection: Team
Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.Collection: Team
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.Collection: Skills
If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.Collection: Next
Act now. Act with speed.Collection: Speed
Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.Collection: Thinking
If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.Collection: Believe
No conflict, no interest.Collection: Conflict
You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.Collection: Design
There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.Collection: Venture
Change the way we teach; Empower teachersCollection: Teacher
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.Collection: Venture Capitalists
I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.Collection: Engineering
How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.Collection: Jobs
If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.Collection: Business