Vinod Khosla
| Vinod Khosla | |
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| Born |
28 January 1955 Delhi, India |
| Alma mater |
IIT Delhi Carnegie Mellon University Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist, Khosla Ventures |
| Net worth | $1.5 billion (2013) |
| Spouse(s) | Neeru Khosla |
| Children | Nina, Anu, Vani and Neal |
Vinod Khosla (Gurmukhi: ਵਿਨੋਦ ਖੋਸਲਾ; born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-born American engineer and businessman. Khosla is listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire. Khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he was the founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s.
Khosla's father was an officer in the Indian Army and was posted at New Delhi, India.
Khosla read about the founding of Intel in Electronic Engineering Times at the age of fourteen and this inspired him to pursue technology as a career. He attended Mount St Mary's School in Delhi. He went on to receive multiple degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University (Masters in Biomedical Engineering), and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).
In 1980, after post-graduating from Stanford University, Khosla worked for electronic design automation company Daisy Systems.
In 1982, Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems (SUN is the acronym for the Stanford University Network), along with Stanford classmates Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, and UC Berkeley computer science graduate student Bill Joy. Khosla served as the first chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems from 1982 to 1984, when he left the company to become a venture capitalist.
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