维诺德-科斯拉

维诺德是一个企业家,投资者和技术专家。他的创始人科斯拉风险投资公司,公司专注于帮助创业者建立有效的基于技术的颠覆性公司。Vinod长大的梦想成为一个企业家,尽管从印度军队家庭没有商业或技术连接。自从16岁,当他第一次听说英特尔的创始人,他开始梦想着自己的科技公司。与电气工程学士学位毕业后从印度理工学院(IIT)在新德里,Vinod未能启动豆奶公司服务在印度许多人没有冰箱。相反,他来到美国继续他的学术研究和获得硕士学位从卡内基梅隆大学生物医学工程。他创业的梦想使他硅谷,他收到斯坦福大学商学院的MBA学位。毕业后,Vinod与黛西系统,电气工程师的第一个重要的计算机辅助设计系统。公司实现了显著的收入,利润和IPO。然后,受到的挫折设计小雏菊的计算机硬件软件需要建造,在1982年他开始基于标准的太阳微系统公司为软件开发人员构建工作站。 As the founding CEO of Sun, he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Sun Microsystems was funded by Vinod’s longtime friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB). In 1986, Vinod joined KPCB as a general partner. While there, he played a crucial role in taking on Intel’s monopoly by building and growing semiconductor company, Nexgen, which eventually was acquired by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Nexgen/AMD was the only microprocessor to have significant success against Intel. Thereafter, Vinod helped incubate the idea and business plan for Juniper Networks to take on Cisco System’s dominance of the router market. The company went on to give KPCB a 2,500x return on its early investment. Vinod also was involved in the formulation of the early advertising-based search strategy for Excite. He helped transform the moribund telecommunications business and its archaic SONET implementations with Cerent Corporation, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for $7.2 billion. In 2004, driven by the need for flexibility to accommodate four growing children, the desire to be more experimental and to fund sometimes imprudent “science experiments,” Vinod formed Khosla Ventures to focus on both for-profit and social impact investments. His goals remain the same: work and learn from fun and knowledgeable entrepreneurs, build impactful companies by leveraging innovation and spend time with a partnership that makes a difference. Vinod has a passion for nascent technologies that have beneficial effects and economic impact on society. He works closely with many KV companies as they face transitions or key decisions. Vinod is driven by the belief that technology is a positive force multiplier to accelerate societal reinvention in food, health, climate, energy transportation, education, housing finance, media, retail and entertainment for billions around the globe. His greatest passion lies in being a mentor to entrepreneurs who are building companies to tackle society’s largest challenges. He was also a supporter of several microfinance organizations in India and Africa. Vinod sits on the board of Breakthrough Energy Ventures and is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals that was founded in 1992 and has more than 40 chapters in nine countries today. He is a founding board member of the Indian School of Business (ISB). Vinod holds a bachelor of technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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