By Alicia Park
Publication Date: 2026-05-25 20:50:00
Topline
Venture capitalist John Doerr, whose early investigations at Amazon and Google helped secure the modern Internet, called artificial intelligence the “biggest innovation tsunami” he’s ever seen in his more than four decades as an investor and was actually “undervalued” – joining a growing group of tech power players making maximalist claims about where technology is headed.
Venture capitalist John Doerr on September 27, 2011 at Renmatix’s planned new headquarters and research center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Important facts
Doerr, 74, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday that the recent wave of AI is the “biggest thing ever.” He argued the public still doesn’t understand how it will change education, employment, health care and “life as we know it.”
He called AI the fourth major “tsunami” in a roughly 13-year cycle, which he traces to the PC and microchip revolution of 1980, followed by the Internet…
