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John Wood
Founder
StagesPre-seedSeed
BacksEnergyCleantechClimate Tech
Latest rounds
- VoltavatePre-seed · $553kJun 2025
- MyVerseSeed · $400kJul 2010
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Rounds they were named in
- Rounds
- 2
- Led
- 0
- Disclosed
- $953k
- Active
- 2010–25
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Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Company raisingGreenwave Technology Solutions, Inc.Directoron 6 filings · since 2023
- SEC Form D · Company raisingSTAY ALFRED, INC.Directorsince 2018
- SEC Form D · Company raisingRESPECT YOUR UNIVERSE, INC.Executive Officer, Directoron 5 filings · since 2011
- SEC Form D · Company raisingIRR-Residential, LLCmanagersince 2010
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Their books
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
John Wood · 2006
4.10 from 4,682 ratings on Goodreads
About the book
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work, not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s, but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something…
Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
John Wood · 2013
4.09 from 771 ratings on Goodreads
About the book
The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at…
Purpose, Incorporated: Turning Cause Into Your Competitive Advantage
John Wood · 2018
4.04 from 74 ratings on Goodreads
About the book
Too many working professionals still subscribe to the old Milton-Friedman logic that “the sole social purpose of a business is to generate profit for shareholders.” In this revolutionary book, authors John Wood and Amalia McGibbon show once and for all that cause is not the…
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Room to Read's John Wood on making Purpose your competitive advantage
WithJohn Wood
Their bookLeaving Microsoft to Change the World
About this episode
Room to Read has brought the enduring gift of education to 11.6 million children in 15 countries. Its founder, John Wood left his position as Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Greater China region to found the organisation. Seventeen years later, with over 20,000 schools and… More on the show's page
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