SAN FRANCISCO — A few days before he testified in a sex discrimination lawsuit that has captivated Silicon Valley, John Doerr, arguably the most famous venture capitalist in the world, was sitting at a conference room table laying out his ideas on good management.
The subject was not the trial, in which a former junior partner of Mr. Doerr’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has claimed gender discrimination. Instead, it was BetterWorks, a company in Palo Alto, Calif., that has raised about $15.5 million in venture capital from investors, including Mr. Doerr.
Image: Kris Duggan, the chief executive of BetterWorks, said the company aimed to make employee performance evaluation more data-driven. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times
