John Doerr
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Nov 3, 2026
Auren HoffmanHOST
And when I go back to the 90s, and I remember the 90s, like I remember there was like these two super ambitious venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins.
Auren HoffmanHOST
It was you and John Doerr, both super smart, both super successful.
Auren HoffmanHOST
You've kind of just continued to be the best while like Doerr, who's like, you know, not that much older than you, roughly retired and kind of lost the ambition.
Auren HoffmanHOST
Why do you think some people like continue the grind?
Erin GriffithGUEST
And so what better way to fight back than to use their vast wealth? And so they've gathered, this group that we reported on, Building a Better California, has gathered $333 million, which is so, so, so much to fight a state proposition.
Erin GriffithGUEST
mostly from, you know, Sergey Brin, but then he brought in John Doerr and Patrick Collison, the founder of Stripe.
Erin GriffithGUEST
John Doerr's a very famous VC investor from Kleiner Perkins.
Erin GriffithGUEST
And so, and they have then, over the last couple months, recruited this, like, kind of who's who of Silicon Valley, like, very high-powered, famous VCs, founders, many of whom are not even billionaires.
Erin GriffithGUEST
There's some, like, mere hundred millionaires.
Danielle MoodieHOST
$333 million to try and beat the California wealth tax.
Danielle MoodieHOST
Sergey Brin, John Doerr, and Patrick Collision, which is a funny last name given what they are driving us into, turned a billionaire club into political ad machine.
Danielle MoodieHOST
Yep.
Danielle MoodieHOST
That's what they're doing.
Bing GordonGUEST
And it's so much fun.
Bing GordonGUEST
You know, John Doerr in a session asked, what's your favorite hour? She's thinking of a favorite hour as a contiguous 60 minutes.
Bing GordonGUEST
And I said, my favorite hour is 61 minutes.
Bing GordonGUEST
60 one-minute sessions, and it's a one-minute session when she glows telling a story and kind of, you know, almost like she's just had three beers.
Molly WoodHOST
Yeah.
Molly WoodHOST
Not that it matters, because I think I'm with you on this, but I wonder, like, what are the other tech trends that you've seen since those early days that continue to validate this idea that we kind of, like, have the technology that we need to solve these big problems? It's really just, you know, as John Doerr and Ryan Poncharadson would say, like, speed and scale.
Mike SchroepferGUEST
Yeah.
Mike SchroepferGUEST
I mean, I sort of...
Kieran MeadowsHOST
Thanks to that mammoth fundraising, a wave of successful exits, and booming AI valuations, Forbes now estimates that Andreessen is worth $18.6 billion and Horowitz is worth $18.1 billion.
Kieran MeadowsHOST
That makes them the richest venture capitalists in the country after Peter Thiel, whose stake in Palantir represents roughly half of his $37.8 billion fortune, and legendary venture capitalist John Doerr, worth $21.8 billion, who's been investing much longer.
Kieran MeadowsHOST
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Kieran MeadowsHOST
Andreessen and Horowitz have appeared on the Forbes Midas list of the top venture capital investors 27 times collectively.
Christine MuiHOST
You'd recognize other top billionaire donors trying to stop the measure as well.
Christine MuiHOST
You have former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, venture capitalist John Doerr, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, crypto executive Chris Larson.
Christine MuiHOST
Those are the top donors.
Christine MuiHOST
They've each donated between $15 million and over $40 million trailing behind Bryn in
Michael MonksHOST
Is he a Google guy? Yeah.
Michael MonksHOST
Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, and Patrick Collison.
Chris MerrillHOST
All right.
Chris MerrillHOST
Wealthy dudes.
Miles GrayHOST
Yeah.
Miles GrayHOST
And who's donating to this building a better California group? It's Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Stripe, Patrick Collison, John Doerr, many other fucking just very wealthy tech people.
Miles GrayHOST
um and they go on to the article goes on to say many are aware of how it looks fighting a billionaire tax as populist outrage grows over inequality requires finesse in a recent memo circulating among donors and viewed by the new york times organizers stress that other supporters not the billionaires must be quote the face of campaigns and if you're in california i'm sure you've seen it's like i'm a nurse and i'm against a billionaire tax what
Jack O'BrienHOST
Huh? Yeah.
John DoerrMODERATOR
So let's go.
Bing GordonGUEST
John Doerr, ladies and gentlemen.
John DoerrMODERATOR
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