Vinod Khosla

4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 1, 2023 by Ben Horowitz · said 24 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Oct 1, 2023 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Vinod Khosla tweeted that AI will replace human musicians
“Our friend Vinod Khosla, I think, had a tweet that got him in a lot of trouble where he said, like, you know, there won't be any more human musicians because the AI would just program whatever feeling, however you want to feel, they just program it for you.”
Ben Horowitz Oct 1, 2023 ▶ 50:22 What is the Future of Hollywood?
Apr 2, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Vinod Khosla lobbied Congress to ban open-source AI
“Vinod has been lobbying to ban open source AI. And by the way, he denies that he's been doing this, but I saw him with my own eyes when the US Congressional China Committee came to Stanford I was in the meeting where he was with, you know, 30 20 or 30 congress…”
Marc Andreessen Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 1:25:45 Politics & the Future of Tech
Oct 16, 2025
Disclosure
Rabois: Khosla Ventures evaluates team performance on question quality, not output
“So when people join the team at KV, we don't actually look at their output. Like, Are the companies great? We look at the quality of their questions.”
Keith Rabois Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 47:29 Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Keith Rabois says Vinod Khosla intervened to stop Sam Altman joining Microsoft
“Or like, yeah, for like, 24 hours until Vinod and some other friends intervened a fair amount.”
Keith Rabois Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 24:05 Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
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