{"id":96,"date":"2005-10-18T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2005-10-18T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T15:20:06","slug":"san-jose-mercury-amazon-board-member-doerr-also-a-keplers-contributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/18\/san-jose-mercury-amazon-board-member-doerr-also-a-keplers-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Mercury: Amazon board member Doerr also a Kepler&#8217;s contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>John Doerr, well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist and board member at Amazon, interestingly is listed among those who contributed $25,000 or more to reopen Kepler&#8217;s Books and Magazines in Menlo Park.<\/p>\n<p>Menlo Park is the location of his venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &#038; Byers, and he lives just up the road in Woodside.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy because Kepler&#8217;s said it went out of business in August because of lost sales to big chains and online merchants like Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, anybody supporting one doesn&#8217;t necessarily need to be against the other: &#8220;For example, I shop at both Amazon and Kepler&#8217;s at times. They serve different purposes,&#8221; said Mike Masnick, co-author of the Techdirt blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\">www.techdirt.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Doerr, well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist and board member at Amazon, interestingly is listed among those who contributed $25,000 or more to reopen Kepler&#8217;s Books and Magazines in Menlo Park. Menlo Park is the location of his venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &#038; Byers, and he lives just up the road in Woodside. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}