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JOHN DOERR ($7.9 BIL)
For Doerr, impact investing means backing
“extraordinary” entrepreneurs who can change
the world at scale. The venture capitalist at
Kleiner Perkins focuses on five areas of need:
education, healthcare, energy and climate,
poverty and leadership, backing everything
from teachers’ app Remind to fuel-cell com-
pany Bloom Energy. “For me, the impact is the
more important return than the financial one,”
says Doerr, whether it’s lives saved or carbon MARTIN SCHOELLER/AUGUST
taken out of the climate. But he still expects to
make three to five times his investment.