John Doerr leaves Sun’s board
Venture capitalist John Doerr will resign from the board of Sun Microsystems, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday.
Doerr has been on Sun’s board since 1982, when Doerr’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, first invested in the company.
Doerr told the Mercury News that he is stepping aside because he wants to spend more time with his family.
But it is also true that all of the guys who were at Sun when Doerr first got involved — Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Scott McNealy — have since either left the company or are no longer playing the leadership roles they once were.
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