John Doerr's daughter: "Your generation created this problem"
John Doerr, a well-known venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, and backer of Google, tells us that his 15-year-old daughter recently told him: “Dad, I’m scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going to do to fix it?” We published his piece on our “contributors” column today.
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