Tech maven, Doerr, gives $1.1bn for Stanford climate school; Kolkata IITian Arun Majumdar to lead it

A man told by Andrew Grove, his legendary boss at Intel, that quitting for venture capital was akin to becoming a real estate agent, has cut a cheque of $1.1 billion, the second highest in US academic history.A Harvard MBA, John Doerr's is the ...

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