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Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Background
Vinod Khosla was born in New Delhi in a family of army officers. He
earned a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Delhi. He attempted to start his own company but the venture failed.
Vinod Khosla then went to the United States and earned his M. S.
degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon and later did M B
A from the Stanford University in 1979. Khosla was a big dreamer and
ambitious from the very beginning. At the Stanford, Khosla found a
business idea and partners from the Stanford Club. They founded a
computer aided and design company- Daisy Systems. Vinod deeply
believes in closeness of family and lives in Woodside, CA with his wife
and four daughters.