John Doerr is an engineer, industry-leading venture capitalist, the chair of Kleiner Perkins and the author of bestsellers Measure What Matters and Speed & Scale- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. For over forty years, he has served entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, helping them build bold teams and disruptive companies; and for the last twenty years, he has been investing in green companies tackling climate change. He was an original investor and board member at Google and Amazon and has helped create more than a million jobs. John is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a member of US President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. A passionate climate activist, he has 287k followers on Twitter and his TED Talks on 'greentech', goal setting and decarbonizing the energy grid have over eight million combined views.
This book is a critical blueprint for anyone looking to take
concrete steps to reach net-zero emissions. Unlike many who simply
issue ambiguous long-dated pledges to help solve the climate
crisis, John Doerr understands the urgent need to ACT quickly and
decisively. With Speed & Scale, he combines his extensive
experience as a legendary technology expert and investor with his
tried-and-true management methods to put forward a clear, detailed,
and comprehensive plan for climate action exactly when we need it
most.
*Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President*
John Doerr is the world's leading mind on turning truly audacious
goals into objectives and key results. In this culminating
contribution, he performs an inspired act of world leadership:
plying his craft to create a comprehensive plan to tackle one of
the most vexing challenges in human history.
*Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last*
With personal insight and visionary foresight, Doerr provides us
with a practical guide for both public and private sector
participation in decarbonizing the global economy, a task as
challenging as it is urgent.
*Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Climate
Change Convention*
Speed & Scale is critical reading for anyone who wants to take
action on the most important issue of our time: climate change.
It's a challenge that feels impossible to solve, but Doerr outlines
a clear path forward and how we can get involved to make an
impact.
*Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube*
A practical path inthe fight against climate change...Doerr
approaches the problem as a hard-nosed businessman who sees an
opportunity, creates a plan, and organizes resources before moving
ahead. Using this approach and prose that is superior to many
similar books, the author crafts a specific, comprehensible
description of the elements that contribute to climate change and
what needs to be done...Throughout, readers are guided by ingenious
illustrations and often startling facts.
*Kirkus*
John Doerr is a man with a plan for our planet - and boy do we need
one. Keep away if you don't think commerce can play a creative
role... or don't want deep dive analytics from someone who is
always measuring what matters. He matters.
*Bono*
A brilliant, unputdownable treatise to focus attention on the most
important problem of our times.
*Business Standard*
Immaculately researched [and] eminently readable.
*MarketWatch*
A clear, accessible and actionable plan...the single best guide to
thinking about climate policy.
*The Washington Post*
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