Crib Sheet: John Doerr, the Kingmaker Behind the Bloom Box

With all systems go for the Bloom Box, the quarter-of-a-mil fuel device that's supposed to be the savior of the universe, here's a refresher course on the money man from venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who helped make the dream into something starting to resemble reality.

The 58-year-old has a big fat contacts book. All the usual suspects, from Al Gore and Bono, thru' Gates, Google and Steve Jobs, are close to Doerr.Green stuff and family makes him blub. On...