Disclaimer : The title of the post has entirely meant to what is in the post. It may be the case virtually, but different case otherwise ___ aBsTrAcT ___ :D
Vinod Khosla, as I mentioned about him in my last post is Pune born Technologist, Venture Capitalists, Commercial Environmentalist (?)
- Studied in IITD then in Carnegie Mellon University and then MBA from Stanford School of Business.
- Founder of Sun Microsystems
- Was partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of founders of The Indus Entrepreneurs
- Owns firm - Khosla Ventures funding indian households through MicroFinance
- Founded ck12.org as it quotes :: "CK12 aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Using an open-source, collaborative, and web-based compilation model that can be manifested as an adaptive textbook - termed the "FlexBook", CK12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational web texts". I am curious to see how they will be doing it so now waiting for their actual launch.
- Significantly investing in Ethenol Industry in US. What I mentioned in my last post is also part of it.
- Has invested in Praj Industries listed in India - not sure if he is also on BODs of Praj.
- Writes blog. and I am yet to figure out what is Prop 87 as he has mentioned many times in his blog.
- Is associated with Zaplet.com which is now MetricStream.com - it is Governance, Risk, Compliance, Quality Management Solution provider company. It's ComplianceOnline.com give online training for these mentioned things. By the way Tata Consultancy Services is also one of the metricstream's partners.- Serves as Directors for renowned companies like Juniper Networks, Siara Systems, Qwest communications, Centrata, Corvis Cooperation, Corio, SEEC, Infinera, etc.
What all this man has been doing. Can you sense 'Sense of Vision' in his attempts so far ?
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