John Doerr vs. Fred Wilson: Are We In a Startup Bubble or Boom? [VIDEO]

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Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, two prominent figures of venture capital took the stage and engaged in a heated and very lively debate.

John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Fred Wilson, a partner at Union Square Ventures, began their conversation cordially enough, but disagreements quickly sprung up.

Doerr is known for his investments in Sun Microsystems, Amazon, Compaq, Google and Netscape. He is one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, boasting a net worth north of $ 1.7 billion. Fred Wilson, on the other hand, is one of New York’s best-known VCs, leading investments in companies such as Twitter, Etsy, FeedBurner and Delicious. His widely read blog, A VC, is one of the most influential in the web startup space.

These two titans of startup investment first disagreed on Facebook (Wilson says it’s not an unstoppable juggernaut); they also butted heads over the state of venture capital (Wilson calls it a bubble, Doerr calls it a boom) and on Google (Wilson and Doerr disagree on whether the company is still innovating).

Check out the YouTube clip below to see Fred Wilson call John Doerr “the Michael Jordan of Venture Capital” after duking it out with the legendary VC:

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