Vinod Khosla
Building the foundations of internet
- Shiva Chinnam
- 2 min read
Background
- Born to Punjabi military family in 1955, grew up in Delhi and went to IIT Delhi.
- Inspired by the story of Intel Corporation started a soy milk company to service people in India who did not have refrigerators, which eventually failed to take off.
Education
- Full scholarship Carnegie Mellon University for Masters in biomedical engineering.
- Rejected twice before joining Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1980.
Entrepreneurship
- Co-founded electronics design company called Daisy Systems which created significant revenue, profits and eventual IPO.
- Co-founded Sun Microsystems which sold servers, workstations and created Java, the programming language that formed the foundation for much of today’s internet.
General Partner at KPCB Edge:
- Mr. Khosla nurtured the creation of Juniper Networks, which built the routers and switches upon which the internet flourished.
- Played a crucial role in building and growing semiconductor company, Nexgen, which eventually was acquired by @Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Khosla Ventures
- Formed in 2014 became known for early investments in alternative energy technology like solar, biofuel, and batteries.
- First investor in companies like DoorDash and Instacart
Continued Impact
- Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals that was founded in 1992 and has more than 40 chapters in nine countries today.
- He is a founding board member of the Indian School of Business (ISB)