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Year 192 (CXCII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aelius and Pertinax (or, less frequently, year 945 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 192 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events[link]

By place[link]

Roman Empire[link]

• December 31 – Emperor Commodus alarms the Senate by appearing dressed as a gladiator for his new consulship (January 1). His mistress, Marcia, finds her name on the imperial execution list and hires the champion wrestler named Narcissus to assassinate Commodus. The Antonines dynasty ends.
• Civil war again strikes Rome (192–193).

Asia[link]

• The kingdom of Champa begins to control south and central Vietnam (approximate date).
• Lü Bu murders his stepfather Dong Zhuo, Chancellor of the Han Dynasty.

By topic[link]

Arts and sciences[link]

• A fire destroys Galen's library.

Religion[link]

• Syrian Christians establish a Christian community in Kerala, India.

Births[link]

• Gordian II, Roman emperor (d. 238)
• Cao Zhi, Chinese poet, also younger brother of Cao Pi and son of the powerful warlord Cao Cao. Since he was the son of Cao Cao, he was often forced to kill and go to battle. (d. 232)

Deaths[link]

• May 22 – Dong Zhuo, Chancellor of Han Dynasty from 189 to 192
• December 31 – Commodus, Roman emperor (assassinated) (b. 161)
• Bao Xin, general of the Han Dynasty (b. 152)
• Cai Yong, Chinese musician, calligrapher, and father of Cai Wenji (b. 132)
• Dong Min, brother of Dong Zhuo
• Li Ru, advisor of Dong Zhuo
• Li Su, executed by Lü Bu
• Liu Dai
• Lu Zhi, general of the Han Dynasty
• Niu Fu, general under Dong Zhuo
• Wang Yun, killed by Guo Si (b. 137)
• Xi Zhicai
• Xu Rong, general under Dong Zhuo
• Yan Gang
• Yuan Yi

References[link]

John Doerr
Born	(1951-06-29) June 29, 1951 (age 60) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	Rice Harvard
Occupation	Venture capitalist
Employer	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Net worth	US$2.2 billion (2011) [1]
Spouse	Ann Howland Doerr; 2 children

L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.^[2] Forbes ranks Doerr as the 540th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $2.2 billion.^[1]

Early life[link]

One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory in St. Louis. He obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices.^{[citation needed]}

He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, and Google, as well as Friendster, GO Corp.,^[3] and others.

Venture funding[link]

Doerr funded Netscape, Google, Amazon, and Bloom Energy.^[4]

He currently serves on the board of Google and on the boards of private ventures Amyris Biotech, Bloom Energy, iControl Networks, EGHC, Flo-Design, Miasole, M2Z Networks, V Vehicle and Spatial Photonics. He seeded Twitter nearly $150 million. His investment philosophy is "no conflict, no interest."^[5]

Doerr co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund. And on TechNet, a policy network of high tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California's Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $3 billion funding for California research into stem cell therapies. He serves on the board of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been and is currently listed on Forbes magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Forbes magazine estimates his net worth to be well over $1 billion. Doerr is a high profile supporter of the Democratic Party in Silicon Valley. Through the TechNet (lobbying organization) he helped found, he has devoted much time and money towards impacting legislation beneficial to the technology industry.^{[citation needed]}

Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate change, and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007 TED conference he cited his daughter's remark: "your generation created this problem, you better fix it" as a call to fight global warming.^[6]

In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund, declaring the iPhone "more important than the personal computer" because " it knows who you are" and "where you are." In April 2010, he along with another iFund members announced an increase in iFund's value by another $100 million dollars making iFund the worlds biggest investment pool in cell phone application industry.^[7]

He had also funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc.

Economic Recovery Advisory Board[link]

In February, 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member to the USA Economic Recovery Advisory Board by President Barack Obama to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.^[8]

Personal life[link]

Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live in Woodside, California with their children.

Recognition[link]

Awards[link]

In 1997, Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business.^[9]

In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.^[10][11][12]

In 2010, Doerr was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at KPCB
• John Doerr at TED Conferences
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• John Doerr on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about John Doerr in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• John Doerr collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• John Doerr collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal
• John Doerr's opening speech in KPCB China 3 Years' Anniversary
• Profile at CrunchBase
• Doerr on The Past, Present and Future of Google
• Video - John Doerr interview with John Battelle
• KPCB Greentech Innovation Network 2007 – “Conversation with Al Gore and John Doerr”
• Google, negotiations and the merits of Mandarin Chinese, John Doerr speaking at Stanford University on February 2, 2005

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