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    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American businessman and venture capitalist. He was born in Delhi, India and received degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford University. After graduating, Khosla co-founded successful companies like Daisy Systems, Sun Microsystems, where he was CEO from 1982-1984, and helped challenge Intel's monopoly by developing AMD. In 1986, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner and has founded organizations like TiE and Khosla Ventures, which manages $1 billion to invest in cleantech and IT startups.

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    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American businessman and venture capitalist. He was born in Delhi, India and received degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford University. After graduating, Khosla co-founded successful companies like Daisy Systems, Sun Microsystems, where he was CEO from 1982-1984, and helped challenge Intel's monopoly by developing AMD. In 1986, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner and has founded organizations like TiE and Khosla Ventures, which manages $1 billion to invest in cleantech and IT startups.

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    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American businessman and venture capitalist. He was born in Delhi, India and received degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford University. After graduating, Khosla co-founded successful companies like Daisy Systems, Sun Microsystems, where he was CEO from 1982-1984, and helped challenge Intel's monopoly by developing AMD. In 1986, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner and has founded organizations like TiE and Khosla Ventures, which manages $1 billion to invest in cleantech and IT startups.

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    My Favorite Entrepreneur

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    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American businessman and venture capitalist. He was born in Delhi, India and received degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford University. After graduating, Khosla co-founded successful companies like Daisy Systems, Sun Microsystems, where he was CEO from 1982-1984, and helped challenge Intel's monopoly by developing AMD. In 1986, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner and has founded organizations like TiE and Khosla Ventures, which manages $1 billion to invest in cleantech and IT startups.

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    My Favorite Entrepreneur

    BY: Sudist Jha Reg. No.- 111151 PGDM(Autonomous) 2011-2013

    Vinod Khosla

    Personal Life
    Born on 28 January 1955 in Delhi, India. Khosla's father was an officer in the Indian Army. Married to Neeru Khosla Having 4 children namely Nina, Anu, Vani and Neal.

    Education
    Indian Institute of Technology, B.Tech in Electrical Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University, M.A. in Biomedical Engineering. Stanford University, MBA.

    Career
    After graduating from IIT Delhi, Vinod Khosla started a soy milk company to cater to those people in India who did not have refrigerators. After graduating from Stanford University in 1980, Khosla co-founded electronic design automation company Daisy Systems. In 1982, Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems and worked as a CEO from 1982-1984.

    In 1986, Khosla joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner. Vinod Khosla also challenged Intel's monopoly by developing Nexgen/AMD. Conceptualized the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco's dominance of the router market.

    Founding fathers of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992. In 2004, he formed khoslaventures to fund knowledgeable entrepreneurs in their new "social impact" ventures.

    Khosla Venture(2004)
    firm is based in Menlo Park, California manages approximately $1 billion of investor capital as well as investments funded by Khosla himself. In September 2009, Khosla completed fundraising for two new funds, to invest in cleantech and information technology start-ups.

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