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Vinod Khosla

1955 - Today

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Vinod Khosla (born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas such as networking, software, and alternative energy technologies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vinod Khosla has received more than 2,023,157 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vinod Khosla is the 789th most popular businessperson (down from 680th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from India (down from 995th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Indian Businessperson.

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  • 20

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  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Vinod Khosla ranks 789 out of 847. Before him are Esther Dyson, Glenn Beck, Fife Symington, Babak Zanjani, Erik Prince, and Steve King. After him are Indu Jain, Donald Carcieri, Biz Stone, Joel Spolsky, Awadeya Mahmoud, and Simon Leviev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Vinod Khosla ranks 687. Before him are José Pilar Reyes, Flip Saunders, John Paulson, Gedde Watanabe, Lusia Harris, and Geraldine Brooks. After him are Stoyanka Kurbatova, Thomas David Jones, Dannel Malloy, Kenth Eldebrink, Andy Gray, and Penn Jillette.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vinod Khosla ranks 1,160 out of 1,861. Before him are Neena Gupta (1959), Mani Kaul (1944), Ram Swarup (1920), Moon Moon Sen (1954), Allu Arjun (1982), and Alia Bhatt (1993). After him are Ram Gopal Varma (1962), Urmila Matondkar (1974), Ranveer Singh (1985), Joseph Galibardy (1915), Emraan Hashmi (1979), and Manik Sarkar (1949).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In India

Among businesspeople born in India, Vinod Khosla ranks 21. Before him are Anil Ambani (1959), Dorabji Tata (1859), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), Nita Ambani (1963), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1953), and Pallonji Mistry (1929). After him are Indu Jain (1936), Sunita Narain (1961), Sunil Mittal (1957), Arvind Krishna (1962), Sabeer Bhatia (1968), and Chanda Kochhar (1961).

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