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• • Innovation • • Innovation Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Energy Development with Vinod Khosla
• • Entrepreneurship, Innovation Vinod Khosla and Dennis Whyte (Head, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering & Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center) sit down to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship in energy development. Read More
SLUSH 2017: Re-inventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology
• • Artificial Intelligence, Innovation Vinod was invited to Slush 2017 where he took the Founder Stage to talk about how our society could be completely reinvented in many aspects through technology, and why entrepreneurship is actually the driving force of that change. The event took place on December 12, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland and brought together 20,000 attendees, including 2,600 startups, 1,600 investors and 600 journalists from over 130 countries. Read More
Economics of AI Workshop 2017 / AI: Musings of a Technology Optimist
• • Artificial Intelligence, Innovation Vinod Khosla ruminates over the many implications of Artificial Intelligence at the Economics of AI NBER Conference in Toronto. Read More
AI: Scary for the Right Reasons
• • Artificial Intelligence, Innovation Vinod explores the dangers of AI in the hands of governments and/or bad actors using AI to push self-interested agendas against the greater good. Read More
Forbes / The next technology revolution will drive abundance and income disparity
• • Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Innovation There have been and will continue to be multiple big technology revolutions, but the most impactful on human society may be the one that finally builds systems with judgment and decision-making capability more sophisticated and nuanced than trained human judgment. Read More
TechCrunch / Could a Nobel Prize-winning innovation have almost been overlooked by Silicon Valley?
• • Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainable energy I want to congratulate Shuji Nakamura (pictured above), the founder of Khosla Ventures portfolio company Soraa, and his fellow collaborators who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. They join an esteemed group of Nobel laureates that includes Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr, all of whom have changed the course of human history. Read More
Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
• • Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, KV CEO Summit, Leadership, Social impact At the annual KV CEO Summit, we were fortunate to have both Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was (although not for lack of trying!), why computers today are still pretty bad, their partnership over the last 16 years, the future of Google, government 2.0 and how machine learning and technology will shape our future of abundance. Read More
Company culture and downtown Las Vegas
• • Innovation, KV CEO Summit, Social impact In this video, hear from Zappos founder/CEO, Tony Hsieh, as he shares one of his core tenants – a great brand is a story that never stops unfolding – and how that led to their focus on the redevelopment of downtown Las Vegas. Read More
LightFair / The device that used to be a lamp!
• • Innovation, Sustainable energy In this video, hear from Vinod Khosla as he compares LED lighting technology to the invention and adoption of smartphone technology and gives a look into the future with Soraa's GaN on Gan LED technology. Read More