Recode Decode: John Doerr

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

John Doerr, the chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about his new book, "Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs." Doerr credits two mentors, Andy Grove and Bill Campbell, with turning him on to that leadership strategy, which is short for Objectives and Key Results — or, in other words, communicating what you want to accomplish and how. Setting clear objectives and making them transparent to your entire company can help tech leaders succeed, but CEOs who don't commit or who build a cult of personality around themselves can put their businesses in jeopardy. Doerr also talks about the state of diversity in Silicon Valley, what he learned from the Ellen Pao trial and whether tech companies are taking privacy more seriously in the aftermath of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by HBO.
0:02.7	HBO's Silicon Valley is as timely as ever as Pied Piper founder Richard Hendrix pivots
0:07.5	to build a decentralized internet, free of ads, and data tracking.
0:11.6	But as the saying goes, new internet, new problems.
0:14.6	Watch new episodes of Silicon Valley's Sundays at 10 p.m. on HBO I watch it every week.
0:22.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:25.6	You may know me as someone who measures the only thing that matters, and that's how many
0:28.8	followers I have on Twitter, which is a lot.
0:31.0	But in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media
0:35.0	Podcast Network.
0:36.7	Today in the red chair is John Doar.
0:39.2	Someone I've known a very long time as we just figured out.
0:41.5	He's the chairman of the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Coffee and Buyers.
0:45.5	He was an original investor in Google and Amazon.
0:48.0	He remains a board member at Google.
0:49.9	But today he is the author of the book, Measure What Matters, How Google, Bono, and the Gates
0:55.8	Foundation.
0:56.8	Rock the world with OKRs.
0:58.8	John, welcome to Recode Decode.
1:00.8	Thank you.
1:01.8	And also, Johnny's today on Recode Decode is Teddy Schleifer.
1:04.2	Recode's finance editor.
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