A look at billionaire investor Vinod Khosla’s contributions to technology

Billionaire venture capitalist and ace investor Vinod Khosla is known for his remarkable contributions to the technological field. The Indian-origin American billionaire has now made 10 predictions about how the world could change with the advancement of technology in the coming years. In a series of tweets, Khosla predicted many significant changes from freeing the bottom 50% of the most undesirable jobs with machine robots to having Artificial Intelligence based ‘near free’ doctors and teachers, reflecting his investment philosophy.

He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Khosla has grown up dreaming of being an entrepreneur while coming from an Indian army household with no business background. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Khosla moved to the US for further studies and received a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

After receiving an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Vinod initially co-founded the significant computer-aided design system for the electrical engineer, Daisy Systems. The company achieved significant revenue and profits along with an IPO. This initial step took Khosla’s direction into the world of technology where he launched and backed up several such projects in the field of technology.