Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla (born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-American billionaire, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.[2] He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures,[3] as well as the owner of the Seattle Seahawks. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas including networking, software, and alternative energy technologies.[4] He has been described by The Information as one of the most successful and influential venture capitalists.[5] He was an early signatory to the Giving Pledge.[6] In 2026, Khosla was ranked No. 10 in the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators.[7] Also in 2026, he was ranked 14th on Forbes' inaugural "250: America's Most Successful Living Immigrants" list.[8] In June 2024, Khosla was featured on the cover of Forbes as part of the magazine's "The Epic Battle for AI's Future" issue, alongside fellow venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman.[9] In September 2024, he was named to Time's TIME100 AI list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence and was featured on the issue's cover.[10] Khosla was No. 1 on the 2026 Forbes Midas List and on the inaugural list in 2001.[11] In 2001, Red Herring called him "The No. 1 VC on the Planet", noting Khosla created six jobs every day from 1976 to 2001.[12] As of May 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at $15.6 billion.[13] Khosla was born on 28 January 1955, to a Punjabi Indian family in Pune, Maharashtra.[14] His father was an officer in the Indian Army,[15] posted to New Delhi, India. His father wanted him to also join the army. He attended Mount St Mary's School in New Delhi for elementary school.[16] He became interested in entrepreneurship after reading about the founding of Intel in Electronic Engineering Times as a teenager, which led him to pursue technology as a career and begin a business.[17] According to Khosla, he was inspired by Intel co-founder Andrew Grove, a Hungarian immigrant who acquired funding fo