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While recognized for several venture "hits", Khosla also played a key role with several of the tech industry's most spectacular failures, including Asera, Zambeel, Dynabook, Excite, and others. |
While recognized for several venture "hits", Khosla also played a key role with several of the tech industry's most spectacular failures, including Asera, Zambeel, Dynabook, Excite, and others. |
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Vinod Khosla | |
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| Born | January 28, 1955 |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist |
Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Poona[1]) is an Indian American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.
Early life and education
Khosla read about the founding of Intel in Electronic Engineering Times at the age of sixteen and this inspired him to pursue technology as a career. Khosla went on to receive degrees from some of the most prestigious institutions in the world: the IIT Delhi, India (Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering ), Carnegie Mellon University (Masters in Biomedical Engineering), and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).
Sun Microsystems
After graduating from Stanford University in 1979, Khosla along with his Stanford fellows Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim (another Carnegie Mellon graduate school alumnus), and a UC Berkeley masters degree holder named Bill Joy founded Sun Microsystems. Khosla left Sun in 1985. Khosla is also one of the founding fathers of The Indus Entrepreneurs, and has guest-edited a special issue of Economic Times (ET), a leading business newspaper in India.
After Sun
Khosla "fell in love" with Zaplet.com, and the company has since merged and developed into a governance, risk and compliance leader.[2]
While recognized for several venture "hits", Khosla also played a key role with several of the tech industry's most spectacular failures, including Asera, Zambeel, Dynabook, Excite, and others.
In 2004 Khosla formed his own firm: Khosla Ventures.
Vinod was featured on Dateline NBC on Sunday, May 7, 2006. He was discussing the practicality of the use of ethanol as a gasoline substitute. He is known to have invested heavily in ethanol companies, in hopes of widespread adoption. He cites Brazil as an example of a country that has totally ended its dependence on foreign oil.[3]
Khosla was a major funder of Yes on 87's campaign to pass California's Proposition 87, The Clean Energy Initiative, which failed to pass in November, 2006.
Personal
He has four teenage children.
Accomplishments
Founding companies
Helping to found companies
- NexGen (now purchased by AMD)
- Excite
- @Home Network
- Juniper Networks
- Cerent
- Corvis
Board membership
- Grameen Foundation [1]
- MetricStream
- E-asic Inc [2]
- Spatial Photonics Inc
- Xsigo
- moka5
- Infinera
- Kovio
- Zettacore
Other
- The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
- 1999 World Technology Award Finalist
- Honorary Chair, DonorsChoose San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board
Notes
External links
- Vinod's presentations, papers
- Vinod's ethanol views debated
- Press
- Vinod's Blog
- Computer History Museum, 11-Jan-2006: Sun Founders Panel
- Sun Feature Story: The Fab Four Reunites (webcast of the event)
- Biofuel-ethanol talk by Khosla. Google TechTalks March 29, 2006
- A Conversation with Vinod Khosla -- Summary of a phone "debate" over the merits of ethanol, in The Oil Drum, an online discussion forum about "Energy and Our Future."
- Khosla Ventures