Venture Capitalist and Author
John Doerr is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins who has backed companies including Google, Amazon, and Intuit. He is the author of Measure What Matters, which popularised the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework.
by John Doerr
Doerr advocates for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as the goal-setting system that powered Intel and Google. The method forces alignment, transparency, and measurable ambition across entire organisations.
The books John Doerr references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Andrew Grove
Grove distils Intel's management philosophy into actionable principles. Output is what matters - a manager's job is to increase the output of their team and adjacent teams.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
Who John draws from, and who draws from John — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.