Good Technology

Trae Vassallo is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Since joining the firm in 2002, Trae has put her technical and entrepreneurial background to work with new portfolio companies across several areas including wireless, consumer media, security, and green technology. Trae works... closely with the management teams of Aggregate Knowledge, a stealth energy company, Digital Chocolate, Podshow and 3vr among others. Currently, Trae focuses primarily on new opportunities in consumer media, mobility, and green technologies.Prior to KPCB, Trae was a co-founder of Good Technology, a KPCB portfolio company that provides an end-to-end wireless corporate email solution. While at Good, Trae helped orchestrate the development of the G100 handheld device. Prior to Good Technology, Trae worked as a design engineer at IDEO Product Development where she developed a range of products including the PalmV, the Dell Latitude Docking station, and many others. Trae holds 13 patents.Trae earned a Bachelor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Trae is passionate about new technology, good design, and spending time with her husband and two children.
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John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He’s optimistic, enthusiastic and energetic. John joined KPCB in 1980, and... with KPCB’s partners backed many of America’s best entrepreneurial leaders, includingLarry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt: Google [GOOG]Jeff Bezos: Amazon [AMZN]Scott Cook, Bill Campbell: Intuit [INTU]Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla: Sun [SUNW]And many othersJohn was founding CEO of Silicon Compilers, a CAD software company; and co-founder of the first broadband cable network, @Home. He came to Silicon Valley in 1974 and joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. He worked in engineering, marketing, and sales, where he was a top-ranked sales executive.John Chambers described John as “the single best venture capitalist in the world.” Eric Schmidt called him “one of Google’s best board members.” And Jeff Bezos said, “Doerr {and Kleiner} is the center of gravity in the internet.”He has also been part of several big failures, most famously GO Corporation, chronicled by Jerry Kaplan in the book “Startup”.John serves on the boards of Google, Amazon, Intuit, Homestore, and Sun. And also private ventures Good Technology, Miasole, Purkinje, Spatial Photonics.He is passionately encouraging innovators to prevent pandemic avian flu and global infectious disease.John is a technologist and inventor, holding patents for computer memory devices. He earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and an MBA from Harvard.John enjoys conversations with students and entrepreneurs, including:Haas Commencement SpeechStanford ETLJohn also cares a lot about public education, global poverty/health, research and innovation, science and women as leaders. He is backing social and policy entrepreneurs, working withTed Smith and Kim Smith, as co-founder of NewSchools.orgLezlee Westine, John Chambers, Jim Barksdale, as cofounder of TechNet.orgReed Hastings, EdVoice.orgMuhammed Yunnus, Grameen BankBono’s DATA.orgSteve & Jean Case, Dr. David Agus, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cures, abc2.org/, andWalter Isaacson, Aspen InstituteJohn was co-chair ofCalifornia Proposition 39, raising $18 Billion of funding for public schoolsCalifornia Proposition 71, authorizing $3 Billion for stem cell research, andNO on California Proposition 211, stopping frivolous lawsuits E-mail: johnd@kpcb.
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