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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