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Vinod Khosla
Khosla is a business enterprise entrepreneur and influential personality in Silicon Valley who is the co-founder of Khosla Ventures. He is one of the richest Indians in America and makes it to the Forbes ‘billionaire list’ quite often.
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.
According to Forbes magazine, he is a rare Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has the potential to produce profits from a clean tech portfolio.
Khosla holds a degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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