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Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla

Formal First Name
Vinod
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Dates
1955 - present
Location
Menlo Park

Vinod Khosla is the Founder and Managing Director of Khosla Ventures, a firm dedicated to building impactful, disruptive technology companies. Khosla is a legendary venture capitalist and one of the most prominent and influential figures in Silicon Valley. He is a tech visionary who has played an important role in starting and helping companies involved in the fields of multimedia, semiconductors, video games, internet software and computer networking. Khosla was a Co-Founder of Daisy Systems and Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors, and was eventually sold to Oracle. He is passionate about mentoring entrepreneurs and fostering societal reinvention, and helping them build technology-based businesses.

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TECH CAREER

  • Khosla is one of the most influential and successful investors in the world, who has been at the forefront of investing in AI and tech.

  • He was the Co-Founder of Daisy Systems, the first significant computer-aided design system for electrical engineers.

  • He was the Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors.

  • He later joined Kleiner Perkins, where he played a crucial role in helping grow Nexgen, Juniper Networks, and Cerent Corporation.

  • He was involved in the formulation of the early advertising-based search strategy for Excite and helped transform the moribund telecommunications business and its archaic SONET implementations with Cerent Corporation.


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