Vinod Khosla

With a net worth $1.3 billion, Vinod Khosla, a business enterprise entrepreneur and influential personality in Silicon Valley, came fourth in Forbes list.

Khosla, who was one among the co-founders of Sun Microsystems worked as its first CEO and Chairman and later on he got into a venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a general partner. He came up with his own firm Khosla Ventures in the year 2004 and is currently heading it.

Forbes says that Khosla “netted nice returns when Beceem Communications (4G technology) sold to Broadcom for $316 million and SKS, the Indian microfinance lender he backed in 2006, went public in 2010.”Forbes also regards him as the rare Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has the potential to produce profits from a clean tech portfolio.