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Vinod Khosla

31 statements across 6 episodes · 13 bullish · 8 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 5, 2015 by Kamal Ravikant · said 126 times in 54 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (54), Keith Rabois (15), Jason Lemkin (13), Delian Asparouhov (6), Samir Kaul (4), Jerry Murdock (3), Dmitry Gurski (3), David Clark (3)

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Everything said about Vinod Khosla, oldest first

Oct 5, 2015 negative
Opinion
Kamal Ravikant: 90% of VCs add no value and 70% are dangerous
“He's like, 90% of VCs are not helpful, and 70% of VCs are actually dangerous. You know, it's actually, I think he was exaggerating a bit, but there's a strong element of truth in it.”
Kamal Ravikant Oct 5, 2015 ▶ 5:18 20 VC 077: PART 1: Kamal Ravikant: 'I'm Not Your Traditional VC'
Feb 24, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Khosla Personally Interviews Eight to Ten Candidates Weekly for Portfolio Companies
“I probably interview eight to 10 people a week, even now, mostly for our companies.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 8:05 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Khosla: I Avoid Board Meetings Because Most Are a Waste of Time
“I don't go to a lot of board meetings now. I focus on this because I find most Most boards don't operate this way, and a waste of time for the founders.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 22:15 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020
Assertion Supported
Khosla Has Invested in Three Future Nobel Prize Winners
“Three people I've invested in have won Nobel Prizes after we invested, not before.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 32:33 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020 neutral
Opinion
Khosla: Private company boards should be advisory, not fiduciary
“In private company boards, I don't think the role of a board is as much fiduciary as it is in public companies. It's much more advisory.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 21:31 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020 positive
Insight
Khosla: Company Building Must Precede Financial Returns in Venture Capital
“Our firm and I am much more focused on how do you build company, not on returns. And if we build a big, successful company, then the returns take care of itself. So returns come second, building something of significance comes first.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 5:10 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Khosla Ventures Passes on Founders Who Discuss Exits in Initial Pitch Slides
“If somebody talks about exits or IPOs in the first few slides, I almost never go beyond that, say, if that's your focus, we are not a good fit for you, the founder.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 25:23 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Khosla: Most board members push startups toward inconsequential safe plays
“Most board members advise the startups to reduce risk in a way where you can increase the probability of success of the startups, but make the consequences of that success inconsequential.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 10:13 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020
Insight
Khosla: Safe companies with good returns do not yield large businesses
“It's perfectly reasonable to go build reliable, safe companies That have good financial returns, but that's not building a large business.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 10:37 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020
Insight
Khosla: Accept 90% Failure Risk for 10% Chance of World Impact
“To me, if there's a 90% chance of failure, and there's a 10% chance of changing the world, that's a pretty good deal. So go for the 10%. Don't be scared by the 90%.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 30:39 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Opinion
Khosla: Most VC Firms Are Afraid of High Technical Risk
“Mostly high technical risk that most others are afraid to take, and really large impact.”
Vinod Khosla Feb 24, 2020 ▶ 5:41 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
Aug 7, 2023 negative
Insight
Khosla: Clean energy tech should not receive subsidies past 5% market share
“Early subsidies help get technologies developed when they're subscale, but by the time they're five percent of market, they really shouldn't need subsidies at all.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 22:39 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khosla: AI will enable custom treatments for 6,000 single-mutation genetic diseases
“I'm pretty excited that for a large number of genetic defects, and there's probably 6000 or so diseases that are single mutation genetic diseases, we will be able to design with AI's help custom solutions because we've essentially solved the protein folding pr…”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 14:25 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023
Disclosure
Khosla: Failing to foresee dedicated routers at Sun was my biggest mistake
“My biggest mistake ever was I was at Sun and Cisco routers was software running on Sun machines and Sun's logo or tagline used to be the network is the computer. And I didn't see, and nobody at Sun saw, routers as more, as maybe a huge thing, even though we ha…”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 45:27 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khosla: Autonomous transit systems will replace most urban cars within 25 years
“I believe, as an optimist, we can replace more scars in more cities in the next 25 years.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 42:01 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023
Disclosure
Khosla: CK-12 banned AI model training in its open-source license years ago
“Multiple years ago, we changed our open source license to include a prohibition against derivative works. So we looked ahead a few years and said our content will not allow for derivative work, including derivative algorithms that use the content to train on.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 36:32 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Khosla: Juniper Networks investment returned $7 billion on $3 million
“We invest in Juniper, which by the way, Was a 2500 X return, a seven billion dollar return for us on a three or four million dollar investment.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 1:12 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Khosla: Splash.ai trained its music models without using any copyrighted artist music
“In Splash.ai, we've trained the music from scratch. There is no YouTube music or any artist music used in training our AI. And it's completely IP free of any artist.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 37:00 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khosla: AI will enable 24/7, low-cost global healthcare within five years
“But all of those I'm pretty convinced will happen in the next five years. And we'll see The capability developed to provide very, very low cost, much more frequent and accessible care, and accessible both, accessible 24 seven, and accessible at a very cheap pr…”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 18:45 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 negative
Opinion
Khosla: Waymo and Cruise self-driving models are not transformative for cities
“I think the Waymo approach and the cruise approach is nice. It adds functionality. It's not transformative of cities.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 42:48 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Khosla: Cheaper, 70% less-carbon cement plants will become operational in 2023
“Already I can say the cement we are producing will be 70% less carbon, and our first plants will be operational this year and cheaper. Then traditional Portland cement.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 25:43 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khosla: AI progress will advance steadily regardless of Wall Street sentiment
“I think the progress of AI applications in utility for society will go on a steady pace based on technical capability and entrepreneurial interest in it, not what Wall Street or investors think about it.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 3:37 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Khosla: I decided immediately to back Marc Andreessen and Netscape
“He was definitely intense. I remember coming out of the meeting calling John Doerr and saying, let's just do this. Remember, the internet was this ambiguous thing. It was one of these triggering moments I call instigations for me. That's what he was like. It d…”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 41:30 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Khosla: Decade-old clean tech bets like QuantumScape returned 5-10x multiples
“If I look across our portfolio, some of the investments we made more than 10 years ago are, you know, there's a whole number of them. QuantumScape, Verdeji, Lanza Tech, Impossible Foods, that are five to 10 X multiples though they took a longer time to get the…”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 24:52 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Khosla: I failed to see the potential of Twitter in 2007
“I remember in 2007, a journalist asked me about Twitter and they interviewed me and they sourced their questions on Twitter in 2007, I think. I think maybe in early 2007 at Davos or something. And I said, huh, interesting, but couldn't see the potential of it.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 45:03 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2023 positive
Insight
Khosla: US fusion transition requires retrofitting 5,000 boilers, not building new plants
“If you take every coal plant in the country and it's boiler, the coal boiler or the natural gas boiler is replaced every five to 10 years. They deteriorate pretty quickly. If you could replace it with a fusion boiler, you wouldn't have to build 5000 new power …”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 28:41 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 12, 2024
Disclosure
Rabois: Passed on Robinhood seed after Khosla banned seed board seats
“I had already, like, locked in a turn sheet to lead the series seat for Robin Hood chilling at 20 post, which was pretty expensive, but they came back and Really wanted me to join the board in the seed round, and this was in maybe my second year at KB, so I as…”
Keith Rabois Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 11:57 Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 12, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabois: Vinod Khosla sometimes works 8 AM to midnight on Sundays
“I've seen him work eight a.m. To midnight on Sundays sometimes, like taking meetings.”
Keith Rabois Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 1:02:29 Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 12, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Rabois: Vinod Khosla published papers on AI replacing doctors before 2013
“He was on the, you know, the AI crusade before I even joined KV in 2013. He published papers about, you know, how AI was going to replace doctors in medicine, and this is like before I joined KV, so way ahead of the curve.”
Keith Rabois Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 1:01:57 Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabois: Khosla and Botha warned me 11 direct reports was excessive
“I used to get yelled at. I went pretty flat at square when I was running hot at like 11 and like Vinod and Roloff gave me feedback that that was too much.”
Keith Rabois May 3, 2024 ▶ 41:15 Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 23, 2024
Insight
Vinod Khosla: Business building is like marriage, demands choosing one model
“Business and product building is very similar to your marriage. You have many opportunities before your marriage, but to be happy, you should choose one and really focus. And my advice to you, choose one business model and be really focused.”
Dmitry Gurski Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 47:07 Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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