Vinod Khosla is an investor who made his mark in the Capital-investment. Among most influential of Silicon Valley, he is regarded as one of the best investors in High technology.

Billionaire, it is one of the cofounders of Sun Microsystems and was one of the principal partners of the firm of capital of risk Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

Biography

Its choice of career crystallized at the 16 years age, whereas it read on the creation of Intel in the Magazine Electronic Engineering Times . It obtained diplomas of various prestigious institutions: Indian Institute off Technology, Delhi, India (graduate in Electronic engineering), Carnegie Mellon University, the United States (control in biomedical Genius) and Stanford Graduate School off Business, the United States (MBA).

In 1979, Khosla founds Sun Microsystems with Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy. Having joined Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1984, it leaves Sun in 1985 to devote itself to its career of investor. In 2004, it founded its own firm, Khosla Ventures.

Achievements

Foundations of companies

• Sun Microsystems
• Daisy Systems

Investment

• NexGen (now property of AMD)
• Excites
• Juniper Networks
• Cerent
• Corvis

Member of the board of directors

• E-asic Inc
• Space Photonics Inc
• Xsigo
• SkyBlue Technologies
• Infinera
• Kovio
• Zettacore

Others

• The Indus Contractors (TiE)

External bonds

• Computer History Museum, 11-Jan-2006: Sun Founders Panel
• Sun Feature Story: The Fab Furnace Reunites video sequence on the Web

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