The India born Venture Capitalist, Vinod Khosla is
one of the most influential persons of the Silicon Valley. Vinod Khosla
is in Forbes magazine's list of America's richest 400 people. Vinod
Khosla is a world renowned venture capitalist. Vinod is revolutionizing
communications. He rose into fame at the age of 27 when he co-founded
the Sun Microsystems with a German student Andreas Bechtolsheim, who was
a multi millionaire. Khosla ran the Sun Microsystems until 1984. In
1986, he joined in Kleiner Perkins as a general Partner. Vinod Khosla
was among the first venture capitalist to visualize that a combination
of internet technology and fiber optics could make communications so
fast, cheap and easy.
As a visionary, Khosla has played important role in starting and helping
companies that are involved in the field of multimedia, semiconductors,
video games, Internet software and computer networking. The biggest
virtue of Khosla is that he doesn't just spread cash, but nurtures and
supports beginners. Vinod Khosla has won accolades and admiration
because of his ability to visualize business opportunities in right
perspective. Khosla is not satisfied only in planning but takes active
part in the implementation part as well. Vinod Khosla was instrumental
in creation of Cerent Corp, juniper Networks, Viant, Extreme Networks,
Lightera etc. Vinod Khosla is also one of the founding fathers of The
Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
Background
Vinod Khosla was born in New Delhi in a family of army officers. He
earned a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Delhi. He attempted to start his own company but the venture failed.
Vinod Khosla then went to the United States and earned his M. S. degree
in Biomedical Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon and later did M B A from
the Stanford University in 1979. Khosla was a big dreamer and ambitious
from the very beginning. At the Stanford, Khosla found a business idea
and partners from the Stanford Club. They founded a computer aided and
design company- Daisy Systems. Vinod deeply believes in closeness of
family and lives in Woodside, CA with his wife and four daughters.
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