Overnight Success: Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla got rejected from Stanford twice. So he worked two full-time jobs at once to get "two years of work experience." They rejected him again. Three weeks into Carnegie Mellon's MBA, he finally talked Stanford into letting him in.
The guy who co-founded Sun Microsystems and backed OpenAI, Stripe, and Square? He failed at a soy milk company for people without refrigerators when he was 20. His first startup went bankrupt. He sent out 400 job applications. Got zero offers.
Now he's worth $10 billion and runs one of Silicon Valley's top venture firms.
Vinod will talk about:
How he convinced Andy Bechtolsheim to stop licensing his computer design for $10K a pop and start Sun instead
Moving his family back to India for three years in the middle of his VC career
Dozens of founders who survived near death experiences to eventually thrive
What it was really like for an Indian Army kid who read about Intel at 16 and decided he belonged in Silicon Valley.
Limited to 30-50 founders. No slides. No script.
04:30 pm: Doors open
05:00 pm: Fireside chat starts
06:00 pm: Mingling
06:30 pm: Door shut
Part of the Overnight Success event series - see other events at overnightfpv.com