Portrait of Vinod Khosla

Rank #190

Vinod Khosla

Net worth $15.7B

Sun Microsystems, venture capital · United States

Born
Jan 28, 1955
Age
71
Source
Sun Microsystems, venture capital
Residence
Portola Valley, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
4
Education
Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology; Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
  • Khosla Ventures invests in experimental technologies such as biomedicine, robotics, and was the first venture firm to invest in OpenAI.
  • The firm scored exits in 2020 and 2021 with IPOs of Affirm and DoorDash and SPAC listings of QuantumScape and Opendoor.
  • Khosla cofounded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy.
  • Khosla spent 18 years at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (now called Kleiner Perkins) before launching his own fund.
  • Khosla attempted to found a soymilk company in India before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s.

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