Valleywag
The children of tech personalities are usually off-limits — unless their parents brought them into the public arena in the first place. Which is the case with Mary Doerr, the 15-year-old environmentalist daughter of Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr, who's guilted the powerful venture capitalist into a personal commitment to green issues. So, what do we know about Mary Doerr? She told her father that his generation had triggered climate change, and it was their job to fix it, which is the public explanation of his environmental activism. To judge by the Kleiner partner's reading list, she's headstrong. And, from this family photo from the TED conference, Mary's way trendier than her dorky dad. One hopes she doesn't move on to the next fad before Doerr has had time to save the world.
The Valley's most influential environmental activist
The children of tech personalities are usually off-limits — unless their parents brought them into the public arena in the first place. Which is the case with Mary Doerr, the 15-year-old environmentalist daughter of Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr, who's guilted the powerful venture capitalist into a personal commitment to green issues. So, what do we know about Mary Doerr? She told her father that his generation had triggered climate change, and it was their job to fix it, which is the public explanation of his environmental activism. To judge by the Kleiner partner's reading list, she's headstrong. And, from this family photo from the TED conference, Mary's way trendier than her dorky dad. One hopes she doesn't move on to the next fad before Doerr has had time to save the world.
10:17 AM on Mon Jun 4 2007
By Nick Denton
1,151 views
