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Almost all geothermal startups to date have been inconsequential in affecting the energy picture in the US. We need impact at tens or hundreds of GW scale. Hardcore technology development for superhot temperature drilling...

Vinod joins Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi at Bloomberg Green Seattle to discuss climate tech investing and the breakthrough technologies poised to drive future growth.

Climate-tech innovation and reshoring help America in the global battle for manufacturing supremacy, and in building the economic power that comes from technological superiority, even in Donald Trump’s “don’t believe in climate change” era...

Vinod Khosla and Bob Mumgaard discuss how advances in fusion technology could soon deliver abundant, clean energy to power industries from AI to agriculture.

I. The opportunity AI affords us to radically improve healthcare and create a trillion dollar companyIn the US it is generally recognized that (1) costs are high and (2) outcomes could be much better. I contend that AI will materially help with both.In my 2016 piece, “20% Doctor Included,”...

Imagine: One day in the early 2030s, an engineer at a newly constructed power plant near Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, will press a button. It will ignite the same reaction that takes place in our sun’s core...

At the Masters of Scale Summit, Vinod Khosla shares his “Instigator Thesis,” arguing that a dozen bold entrepreneurs can solve the climate crisis by transforming key sectors...

In the latest episode of Fixing Healthcare, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome back Vinod Khosla, legendary investor and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to discuss the transformative impact...

Vinod Khosla and Eric Larsen of TowerBrook Advisors discuss how AI is poised to revolutionize healthcare at the Heartland Summit.

At Health Evolution’s annual Summit, CEOs from leading health systems, health plans, and life sciences companies, as well as select policymakers, investors, retailers, and technology...

Vinod joins Rich Karlgaard of Forbes to share his views on how AI can transform the future of education.

In this episode of Marketplace Tech, Vinod joins reporter Lily Jamali to share how customizing large language models (LLMs) to fit specific countries' AI systems...

In this edition of "Lessons from the C-suite," Advisory Board’s Eric Larsen sits down with Vinod Khosla, founder and president of Khosla Ventures and prolific...

In this episode the Business Trip, KV Partner Alex Morgan discusses his perspectives on the neurotech landscape and other essential business strategy topics. Listen to...

Vinod Khosla joins Atul Satija, CEO of Give, for a fireside chat at the 2023 India Philanthropy Summit where they discuss philanthropy and technology.

From renewable energy to electric vehicles to artificial intelligence, innovative technologies are being deployed and scaled in new ways to slow the effects of climate...

Vinod joins Azeem Azhar in this episode of Exponentially to discuss the importance of technology and innovation to reach net-zero emissions.

Vinod joins executives and leaders across sectors to discuss the future of sustainability and the green economy. Courtesy of Fortune.

Samir Kaul joins Michelle You, CEO of Supercritical, and reporter Jon Sopel at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Future Of Britain conference to...

In this episode, Rajesh Swaminathan shares his views on climate - from why Climate 1.0 was not a failure to which 12 sectors within climate...

Vinod Khosla, Partner at Khosla Ventures, provides a powerful overview of what is needed to address climate change. He says the world needs 12 good...

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI, sits down with Sven Strohband to discuss AGI, LLMs and more.

Matt Kaeberlein, Chief Science Officer of Optispan, explores the science behind aging and the potential strategies to enhance healthspan.

In this talk, Vinod focuses on the transformative potential of AI and the pivotal role it will play in shaping the future.

At the 2023 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, renowned businessman and investor Vinod Khosla delivers a keynote address on “getting climate right” and how technology developed...

After tennis great Serena Williams announced her retirement from tennis, she tweeted out an article from Joseph Coughlin, head of the MIT AgeLab. Williams said...

Vinod Khosla and Tim O’Reilly on the future of healthcare, the shift from the practice of medicine to the science of medicine, and the disruption...

When Jeff Wilke left Amazon in 2021, where - since 2016 - he had served as CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, his next chapter could...

More than 50 years ago, President Nixon announced a moonshot to cure cancer. But the cure never came. More than half a million Americans still...

When Sarah Friar quit as the CFO of Square, CEO Jack Dorsey wasn't thrilled. But she felt compelled to take the leap. Friar explains why...

Bob Mumgaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion, sits down with Vinod Khosla to discuss fusion - both where we are today and the progress he expects...

From massive supply chain issues to wary investors, 2022 is turning out to be a tough year for biotech. But it's also a sector that's...

This post also appears in the Financial Times. As the US and China rivalry intensifies, Vinod Khosla argues breakthrough technologies - especially in AI and...

About a decade ago, when the President of MIT approached Angela Belcher about doing cancer research, Belcher turned her down. After all, Belcher is a...

Patrick Brown makes burgers for a living, but he’ll tell you without hesitation: he has no interest in making burgers. So how did a Stanford...

You want to do what’s right for the planet. So you buy an all-electric car. Right? Well..

Vinod Khosla gives a whirlwind tour of the many companies in our portfolio that are inventing the future and getting to the impossible.

Sure, lots of business leaders have big dreams. But when Jennifer Holmgren tells you she wants to turn pollution into both jet fuel and yoga...

Silicon Valley and Washington, D. C., aren't always two peas in a pod. The "move fast, break things" approach may not square with a cautious-at-all-costs...

Artificial intelligence is upending the way business is done, and shifting who has the advantage. We talk with Harvard Business School's Karim Lakhani about why...

Join Vinod Khosla as he shares his views on technology and AI and how he envisions it changing the future.

Start-ups are now the predominant source of innovation in all categories of food technology. Venture capital can accelerate innovation by enabling start-ups to pursue niche...

Hear Vinod Khosla’s thoughts on technology, the venture world, and it’s influence on healthcare as he discusses the topic of “Fixing Healthcare” with Robert Pearl....

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and cofounder of Sun Microsystems. Vinod is an entrepreneur, investor, and technologist as well as a mentor to entrepreneurs...

Join the conversation with Vinod Khosla and Christina Farr as they discuss important topics including the pandemic and the dire situation in India, climate change,...

The global pandemic ushered in a new era of health innovation. Join StartUp Health founders Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes for an interactive Fireside Chat...

Join Vinod Khosla as he discusses AI and climate change at the 2020 NeurIPS Conference.

This post also appears on Medium. 12–15 entrepreneurs, driven by entrepreneurial energy and passion for a vision, and a little bit of luck, could change the...

Vinod Khosla and Lisa Weiner, Curator of ApplySci, have a wide ranging discussion on the role of AI in the future of healthcare.

In this video, Vinod Khosla speaks with Toby Cosgrove, Executive Advisor at the Cleveland Clinic, about the future of healthcare.

Vinod Khosla sits with Katie Rae, CEO and Managing Partner at MIT’s The Engine, to discuss the firm’s investment thesis of societal reinvention and the...

Vinod Khosla sits down with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, to discuss the company’s ambitions in building an intelligence that is smarter and more capable...

Vinod Khosla discusses the future of healthcare investing and the impact AI will have on the sector, from doctors day-to-day responsibilities to patient outcomes.

As a technology optimist I like to say, “what can be imagined technologically reasonably can be invented” is more true than not and more a...

Hear from Vinod Khosla on pushing entrepreneurs to excellence, the innovation mindset, and how entrepreneurs can use technology to invent the future they want.

Vinod Khosla talks about the AI revolution, including its broad implications and the large structural changes it will catalyze across industries.

This post also appears on Hackernoon. Artificial intelligence, AI, has grabbed headlines, hype, and even consternation at the beast we are unleashing. Every powerful technology...

Healthcare has a radical opportunity to reinvent itself. Healthcare today often results in suboptimal patient outcomes despite doctors doing the best they can within the...

In this talk, hear from Google SVP, Sundar Pichai, as he discusses the evolution of new technology and how patterns of usage have shifted with...

This post also appears on TechCrunch. The “practice of medicine” developed through tradition and the experiential evolution of best practices with small-scale medical research studies...

Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down with Vinod Khosla to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was, why computers...

"Silicon Valley is not a place but a state of mind." – Vinod KhoslaIn this talk, Vinod will speak about the ways in which he's...

In this video, hear from Jay Kimmelman, the co-founder and CEO of Bridge International Academies as he discusses how to disrupt the status quo in...

This post was also published by Fortune. Data-driven healthcare won't replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better....

This post also appears in Forbes. Clean tech as we see it continues to be a large opportunity – one that we believe will create...

Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates sit down for a wide ranging discussion on everything from the possibilities of science-driven innovation, how the US can maintain...

This article appears in the January 2012 issue of Tech Crunch here. Editor’s note: This is Part III of a guest post written by legendary...

This article is also posted on TechCrunch. Editor’s note: This is Part II of a guest series written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla,...

In this video, Forbes' journalist, Kym McNicholas, talks with Vinod Khosla as he discusses ignoring experts, failure and the black swan thesis of energy transformation,...

The looming twin challenges of climate change and energy production are too big to be tackled by known solutions and time-­‐honored traditions. Incremental remedies are...

In this video, hear from John Hennessy, the President of Stanford University, as he discusses the innovation ecosystem - what is key to making it...

This podcast appears on Scientific American. In a one-on-one dialogue, conducted before an audience of energy entrepreneurs and financiers at the recent GoingGreen conference in...

This article appears in the December 2010 issue of Foreign Policy here. Why throwing money at today's clean-energy technologies could keep us from discovering tomorrow's....

This post also appears on greentechmedia. We are approaching the expiration of tax subsidies for corn ethanol. Established in 2004, the initial purpose of the...

This post also appears in the The Washington Post. If our goal is carbon reduction, a cap-and-trade or carbon-pricing bill, with its likely compromises, would...

Zero emission buildings and hybrid vehicles, have broad appeal, but any climate change solution must first make economic sense in order to truly be effective...

This article is also published by Harvard Business Review. A Conversation with Vinod Khosla by Alison Berkley WagonfeldFrom Vinod Khosla’s perspective, the world’s economic future...

In this podcast with the Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner, hear from Vinod Khosla as he shatters conventional wisdom on energy reduction and instead encourages entrepreneurs to...

In 1997, a dozen heads of state joined almost 3,000 participants from 137 countries in Washington, D. C.for the world’s first Microcredit Summit. During the...

The economic development of India’s 600 million strong rural population presents formidable challenges and also great opportunities. A model called RISC – Rural Infrastructural &...

The Microcredit Summit Campaign (‘the Campaign’) has played a lead role in advocating for microfinance as one of the most important strategies to reduce poverty....

In this deck, get Vinod Khosla’s perspective on micro finance and how it can enable entrepreneurial energy for the other half.