Vinod Khosla: Silicon Valley’s persistent provocateur

One man who will be deeply disappointed with Donald Trump’s victorious run in the US presidential election will be Vinod Khosla. Moving to the US on a full scholarship for his master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, he went on to do an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Significantly, the startup fever was driven by the emergence of venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, a development that had a huge bearing on Khosla’s future. The future and my admiration belongs to those dreamers who think of these unreasonable possibilities, who aren’t afraid of the high probability of failure, and who take, bold and, radical risks An IPO followed in 1986 and Sun was well on its way to become the powerhouse that would see its market cap soar to over $150 billion at the time of the dotcom boom in 2000 before it collapsed spectacularly and was bought by Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion. Its philosophy is best explained in a paper tiled Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology that he penned in 2018 wherein he says “The future and my admiration belongs to those dreamers who think of these unreasonable possibilities, who aren’t afraid of the high probability of failure, and who take, bold and, radical risks."