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Vinod Khosla
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Sun Microsystems, venture capital
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Portola Valley, California
- Organization
- Founder at Khosla Ventures
- Education
- Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science)Indian Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Arts/Science)Stanford Graduate School of Business (Master of Business Administration)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
Assets
- Affirm Holdings2,803,000 shares @ --AFRM-US
- Alphabet13,680,000 shares @ --GOOGL-US
- Berkshire Grey23,110,000 shares @ --BGRY-US
- Block Inc Class A2,313,000 shares @ --XYZ-US
- DoorDash, Inc2,930,000 shares @ --DASH-US
- GitLab, Inc7,231,000 shares @ --GTLB-US
- Google Inc. (Cl C)9,756,000 shares @ --GOOG-US
- Guardant Health184,000 shares @ --GH-US
- Instacart3,356,000 shares @ --CART-US
- Juniper Networks Inc.1,598,000 shares @ --JNPR-US
- Lanzatech125,000 shares @ --LNZA-US
- NextDoor2,730,000 shares @ --NXDR-US
- Okta, Inc212,000 shares @ --OKTA-US
- Opendoor Technologies10,377,000 shares @ --OPEN-US
- QuantumScape7,821,000 shares @ --QS-US
- RingCentral677,000 shares @ --RNG-US
- Rocket Lab USA21,324,000 shares @ --RKLB-US
- Velo3D463,000 shares @ --VELO-US
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.
About
Khosla attempted to found a soymilk company in India before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s.