November 2024
Our Mission
Move leaders to act—with speed & scale
Speed & Scale provides the information and inspiration we need to take action now.
Speed & Scale
The Team
John Doerr
John is an engineer, venture capitalist, and the chair of Kleiner Perkins. He is the author of international bestsellers Measure What Matters and Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. For over 40 years, John has served entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, helping them build bold teams and disruptive companies. A pioneer of Silicon Valley’s cleantech movement, he has invested in zero-emissions technologies since 2006. Outside Kleiner Perkins, John works with social entrepreneurs who are tackling systemic issues across climate, public health, and education.
Alix Burns
Alix is an experienced strategist with public affairs expertise at the intersection of technology and policy around energy, climate and the innovation economy. From her previous experience running a national association, coalitions, and advocacy campaigns, Alix has unique insights into the differing ways that practitioners, principals, and policymakers approach complex problems. Alix is aligned with all of the accelerants—Objectives 7-10—everything to facilitate and scale solutions.
Anjali Grover
Anjali is Managing Director of Speed & Scale. She previously co-founded Grammar, a New York-based brand and communications consultancy. Anjali served as Global Head of Brand and Managing Director for Marley Spoon, where she led the US business. Anjali began her career at SYPartners, working with CEOs and their teams to envision and activate bold futures. She collaborated on the bestsellers Speed & Scale and Measure What Matters. While she tries not to play favorites, Anjali has a soft spot for Objective 3, Fix Food.
Jeff Coplon
Jeff is a journalist with broad experience in daily newspapers, national magazines, and nonfiction books. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He collaborated on the best-selling Speed & Scale and Measure What Matters, and previously worked on memoirs by Paul Allen, Tina Sinatra, Bill Parcells, Cher, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Jeff’s favorite objective is “Turn Movements Into Action,” and his favorite key result is 8.6, “Economic Equity.”
Jonathan Lipman
Jonathan is an innovator and engineer who leads strategic initiatives at Speed & Scale. Before joining Speed & Scale, Jonathan was a Fellow at Schmidt Futures, on an ethics team of a big tech company, an analyst at two large hedge funds, and helped modernize the way our government delivers essential services. As a philosophy and computer science double major at Stanford, Jonathan was co-founder of Democracy Day, a representative to the Faculty Senate and Board of Trustees, and an elected member of student government. Jonathan’s favorite objective is “Innovate!”
Julian Khanna
Julian’s goal at Speed & Scale is to guide every Fortune Global 500 company toward getting on track to zeroing out their emissions impact by 2050. Though his focus is on Objective 8, “Turn Movements Into Action,” his favorite is Objective 4, “Protect Nature,” and he’s happy that governments have tripled the volume of protected areas in our oceans over the last decade. Prior to joining Speed & Scale, Julian worked on accelerating treatment of late-stage cancers and developing devices to make technology accessible for people with quadriplegia.
Ryan Panchadsaram
Ryan Panchadsaram is an engineer and investor focused on solving systemic societal challenges. At Kleiner Perkins, as technical advisor to the chairman, he invests in founders and technologies that aim to change the world. Ryan is the co-author of the best-selling Speed & Scale and previously collaborated on the number-one bestseller Measure What Matters. In March 2020, he co-founded US Digital Response, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments and organizations respond quickly and efficiently to support the public’s critical needs. Under President Obama, as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Ryan championed entrepreneurship, innovation, and open data.
Quinn A. Marvin
Quinn is a finance and data analyst who advises on investing across a wide-range of industries, including health care, technology, and climate. She collaborated on the bestselling Speed & Scale. Previously, Quinn worked as research associate at Farallon Capital Management, LLC, in the group’s Merger Arbitrage, Special Situations and Event-Driven Equities portfolio. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a BA in advertising from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media in 2004 and an MBA with a finance concentration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2019. Quinn’s favorites are Objective 10, “Invest!” and Key Result 10.3, “Venture Capital.”
About
Speed & Scale is a global initiative to move leaders to act on the climate crisis. Our work focuses on education, advocacy, and solution-scaling.
We can only manage what we can measure.
To execute a big plan, you need clear and measurable goals.Explore the Tracker
With 10 objectives and 55 key results, the Speed & Scale plan shows how we can get to net-zero emissions by 2050—and halfway there by 2030.
OKRs stand for Objectives and Key Results. They address the critical facets of any goal worth achieving: the “what” and the “how.” Objectives are what you aim to accomplish. Key Results (KRs) tell us how we’ll get the objectives done.
A well-formed objective is significant, action-oriented, durable, and inspirational. Each objective is supported by carefully chosen and crafted key results. Strong key results are specific, timebound, aggressive (yet realistic) and most of all, measurable and verifiable.
OKRs aren’t the sum of all tasks. They focus on what’s most important, the handful of essential action steps for a given pursuit. They enable us to track our progress as we go.
To learn more about OKRs, and learn how to set your own, visit whatmatters.com.
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