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Khosla- CEO of Sun Microsystems and venture capitalist |
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NRI Vinod Khosla is an Indian American venture capitalist
who is considered one of the most successful and influential
personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders
of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the
venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures
UPDATE
- April 07, 2008: NRI
Vinod Khosla and his wife donated $500,000 to the Wikimedia
Foundation - NRI philanthropists
Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief
Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, and wife Neeru Khosla
(innovators in educational outreach), donated $500,000 to
the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit . ....Read
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- Sep. 22, 2007: Forbes list-
317th place with a net worth of $1.5 billion.
- May 31, 2005: Catching
Up with Vinod Khosla- I recently visited Vinod
Khosla, who since the 1980s has been a general partner in
seven funds at VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
which has funded such companies as Google, Genentech, and
Sun Microsystems, where Khosla was a co-founder. Last year...Read
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- Dec. 08,
2004: NRI Capitalist tycoon Vinod
Khosla (California) has gifted $5 million for a IIT school
Delhi where he studied- California-based
venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has gifted $5 million for
a school on information technology at the Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) and is funding a series of micro-credit
foundations in India."I am contributing $5 million
towards the school at IIT Delhi where I studied. ....Read
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2003 Forbes Midas
list: NRI among Forbes'
400 richest Americans -
He is co-founder
of Daisy Systems and the founding chief executive officer
of Sun Microsystems. Khosla, at 48, stands 357th in the
list of 400 richest Americans, is the only NRI in the
list. He has been ranked 357th this year with a wealth
of $700 million.
....Read
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Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems
and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where
he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Vinod
serves on the boards of Agami, eASIC, Indian School of Business,
Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, Spatial Photonics, Xsigo and Zettacore.
- Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Pune, India[1]) is
an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential
personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders
of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture
capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.
- Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's
in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and
an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- He lives in Woodside, California, with his wife Neeru and
their four children. Three daughters and one son.
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