Vinod Khosla
✓ Source-basedstableIndian-American businessman
He co-founded Sun Microsystems, then spent decades placing bets on what comes next - networking, software, alternative energy, AI - and the bets kept landing. Forbes put his net worth at $15.6 billion in May 2026 and crowned him No. 1 on the Midas List twice, twenty-five years apart.
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Vinod Khosla was born in India on 28 January 1955 and crossed into Silicon Valley in time to co-found Sun Microsystems, the company that helped wire the early internet. He pivoted to venture capital and founded Khosla Ventures, staking early money in alternative energy and software when both were still question marks. The wins stacked: Red Herring calculated in 2001 that he'd created six jobs every day since 1976, and Forbes later ranked him No. 10 among America's greatest innovators in 2026. That same year he bought the Seattle Seahawks and appeared on the magazine's inaugural list of the country's most successful living immigrants at No. 14. By 2024 the lens had turned to AI - Forbes ran him on the cover alongside Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman for "The Epic Battle for AI's Future," and Time named him to its TIME100 AI list. He signed the Giving Pledge early and kept doubling down on the future, one sector at a time.
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