Vinod Khosla and Chamath Palihapitiya share their personal stories as they discuss their careers, taking risks, as well as their thoughts on the future and technology. Watch this inspiring discussion as Vinod and Chamath take on Hack the North 2021.…

Vinod Khosla and Chamath Palihapitiya share their personal stories as they discuss their careers, taking risks, as well as their thoughts on the future and...

Sarah Altabet is an Early Career Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures where she focuses on building the firm’s university recruiting program and connecting students and early‑career candidates with opportunities across the Khosla Ventures portfolio.…

Sarah Altabet is an Early Career Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures where she focuses on building the firm’s university recruiting program and connecting students and early‑career candidates with opportunities across the Khosla Ventures portfolio.

Why Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar Took A Big Career Risk. September 14, 2022. When Sarah Friar quit as the CFO of Square, CEO Jack Dorsey wasn't thrilled. But she felt compelled to take the leap.…

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...

If you are a prospective applicant, this article may help you decide how to best conduct your job search or develop your career. If you are a student, this article includes some programs to consider as you pursue your education.…

“Where do you find designers to hire?” Now that you understand what UX skills you need to have for your team and have written a...

Michael Gough is a Design Partner at Khosla Ventures and a design leader who has spent his career helping companies turn ambitious ideas into products that resonate with real people.…

Michael Gough is a Design Partner at Khosla Ventures and a design leader who has spent his career helping companies turn ambitious ideas...

Scott Cook, founder and chairman of the executive committee at Intuit, discusses leadership and what he’s learned over the course of his career, including savoring surprises and embracing experimentation. Interested in more?…

Scott Cook, founder and chairman of the executive committee at Intuit, discusses leadership and what he’s learned over the course of his career, including savoring...

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on her unique career path from the Uganda Cancer Institute to Genentech to the Gates Foundation, and the lessons she learned along the way. Interested in more?…

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on her unique career path from the Uganda Cancer Institute to Genentech to the Gates...

Failing to captivate your listeners with your story has disastrous consequences—products fail to sell, ideas fail to get funded and careers fail to soar. Your ideas are meant to be heard. They might very well change the world.…

Carmine Gallo, communication coach and author of several bestselling books, discusses why the ability to communicate ideas and tell persuasive stories is the single greatest...

If we take the very small percentage of entrepreneurs who succeed (keeping in mind that early in their careers, it’s hard to differentiate the successful entrepreneurs from the failures) and look at the impact they have made and the resources they have helped…

“The future will not be like the past.” Vinod Khosla shares his views on how the future will be driven by new technologies and those...

Questions like purpose, identity, and persistence will matter more to the population than linear career planning. What will give meaning and what will people do is speculated upon in this blog.…

AI is a great disrupter that comes with many opportunities and dangers. The short term vision is clear. The nature of mid-term disruption is hazy and unpredictable. Long term abundance is much more possible than it has ever been in human history. The north star here is AI’s potential in transforming

Adrian began his career in investment banking at Qatalyst Partners in London, advising on a number of VC-backed M&A transactions including Tink’s sale to Visa, Peakon’s acquisition by Workday, Instana’s sale to IBM, Dialog’s merger with Renesas, Spacemaker’…

Adrian is a Partner at Khosla Ventures focused on early stage investments. Before joining KV, Adrian was a Partner at Lightspeed, where he invested across both early...

In my view, many if not most of them haven’t done enough in their careers to earn the right to advise entrepreneurs, a job I consider laden with responsibility.…

This post also appears on TechCrunch. Most VCs pitch their venture firms as value added to a company’s entrepreneurial founders. Personally, I think leading VC...

Earlier in his career, John held sales and marketing positions at two Bay Area venture-backed companies, had a brief career in local radio, and worked at his family’s commercial transportation business.…

John is General Counsel at Khosla Ventures. He joined the firm in 2016 and has worked with investors and entrepreneurs since 2007. Previously, he...

Prior to KV, Jon built a career in technology as a founder, early employee, and organizational leader across a variety of engineering and product roles.…

Jon is a Partner at Khosla Ventures passionate about machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and developer...

David’s career began in door to door sales, where one sales pitch led to his new career in technology via McCaw Cellular, now AT&T.…

David is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on internet software and services. A number of his investments...

But if I could only have one of a liberal art or an engineering/science education, I’d pick the engineering even if I never intended to work as an engineer and did not know what career I wanted to pursue.…

This post also appears on Medium. Critical Thinking, Knowledge basics and the Scientific Process First — Humanities Later. If luck favors the prepared mind...

She started her venture career at Canaan where she built Canaan Beta, the firm's seed practice, from the ground up and led the firm's investments in Brigit and Tia Clinic. While there she also served on the boards of ContentSquare and Hugo.…

Adina is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she focuses on software, AI, and financial services at the Seed - Series B stage. She has led the firm's...

Keith has helped build some of the largest, globally-recognized technology companies in his more than 20-year career.…

Keith is a Managing Director at Khosla Ventures. Keith invests across sectors and stages and brings his unparalleled experience as a world-class...

In this video, hear from Bill Campbell, a board director of Intuit and Apple discuss leadership, management and other insights gleaned over the course of his career. Interested in more?…

In this video, hear from Bill Campbell, a board director of Intuit and Apple discuss leadership, management and other insights gleaned over the course of...

Plus, a look at how Craig Venter - who helped sequence the human genome - shaped Kaul's career. Listen. Interested in more?…

Financial markets have been up and down enough to make anyone seasick. And if you're starting a company - or investing in one - it's...

He started his career at Fenwick & West in San Francisco and Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York. Throughout these experiences, Luis has negotiated and closed hundreds of deals across stage, scope, and jurisdiction.…

Luis is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures where he focuses on strategic transactions and special projects across the portfolio. He has a deep...

Before OpenStore, Trent worked at Thoma Bravo and Wells Fargo Principal Investments, starting his career investing in corporate and municipal debt. Trent graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in finance. LinkedIn. X…

Earlier in her career, Diana was at CloudKitchens, where she supported small and mid-sized businesses in optimizing online ordering and delivery operations through software-driven solutions.…

Diana is a Talent Manager at Khosla Ventures, where she partners with founders across the portfolio to recruit exceptional technical and operational talent...

Earlier in his career, Jai was a principal at NEA, where he worked across the firm’s enterprise and fintech practices.…

Jai is a Partner at KV where he works across sectors with an emphasis on growth-stage opportunities. Prior to joining KV, Jai was a founding partner...

Daisy studied statistics and economics at the University of Chicago and began her career in quantitative trading at Goldman Sachs before discovering her passion for harnessing technology to improve human health through a formative experience in Andrew Ng’s…

Daisy is Chief of Staff to Vinod Khosla. Prior to KV, she was a postdoctoral researcher in aging and AI at Stanford,

Ryno began his financial career at Xoom, Inc. where he was CFO and chief risk officer for 10 years. He was a key player in the company’s journey from a team of 50 to a successful IPO and subsequent sale to PayPal.…

Ryno is CFO at Khosla Ventures where he manages the financial functions of the fund. He also supports portfolio companies on matters related to finance...

Earlier in his career, Rajesh worked with startups while at Third Point Ventures and Lucent’s Bell Labs. While at Bell Labs, he partnered with many startups to successfully develop and deploy next-generation network systems globally.…

A Partner at Khosla Ventures, Rajesh has two decades of experience assisting and investing in deep tech startups. He manages many of the firm’s...

Hari began his career as an engineering and product lead at Palantir Technologies, where he built products and led partnerships with some of the company’s largest customers, spanning financial services and healthcare.…

Hari is a Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he invests and partners with entrepreneurs across sectors, particularly in areas that advance our...

While it’s tempting to hold out for a jack-of-all-trades designer who can “do it all”, usually the people who most fit this profile are too early in their careers to have any wealth of experience in any specialty.…

User experience design is a multidisciplinary field. A well-designed product must be visually appealing and simple, and easy to understand, learn and use.

How do they help engineers develop their careers? Project Management. How do they communicate status and predictability to stakeholders? How do they keep the process efficient?…

The senior-most technology focused executive at a tech startup is a make-or-break hire. They set the technical vision of your product based on feasibility and...

Early in his career Alex taught himself programming and joined the MITRE Corporation as an artificial intelligence research engineer.…

Alex is a Partner at Khosla Ventures with a focus in biotechnology, healthcare, data science, and AI/ML. He works on new investments and sits on the...

Earlier in his career, Samir led the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative at Craig Venter’s Institute for Genomic Research.…

Samir is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where his interests lie in AI, advanced technology, health, sustainability and...

Earlier in her career, Amy began on Wall Street selling enterprise software at IBM and Salesforce, and later led the global strategic alliances program at DigitasLBi (Publicis).…

Amy Kalokerinos is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she brings deep experience as a growth operator and founder working with early- to late-stage companies across major verticals in the U.S. and Europe...

Bruce began his career as one of the first 20 employees at Teradata Corporation.…

Bruce is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on enterprise technology and digital healthcare companies. Bruce serves or has...

A designer who “does it all” is usually pretty early in their career, so junior that they haven’t had a chance to develop deep skills in a particular area.…

“How much does a designer typically make?” The answer to this question varies widely, based on a number of factors:Current compComp historyCompeting offersHow long has...

For students who want to pursue a career making technology, services and products of the future, there is no better way to learn than by doing.…

Design is a profession where people learn by doing. The best designers are making all the time. They have personal side projects; they’re constantly inventing...

She also has spent most of her career mentoring some of the brightest design minds in the tech industry, many of whom have since gone onto influence design at such innovative companies as LinkedIn, Facebook, AirBnB, Twitter, Etsy and Rackspace, to name a few…

Design matters. In 1980, when I was working on my first startup, Daisy Systems, I hired my first designer, David Kelley. This was long before...

The best candidates you interview will not need to have had this role previously in their career, but is used to ambiguity, a balance between focus and defocused exploration, risk taking.…

ForewordPart I: Hiring: The Difference Between Success and Failure is below. Part II: The Interview and How To Get the Most From It and Part...

Of course, the company’s needs will change, and his hires over the next few years will determine the future of Lookout and his own career path. Jack Dorsey (CEO/Founder of.…

This post also appears on TechCrunch. Editor’s note: This is Part I of a two-part guest column written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla,...

Dieter Rams joined Braun in 1955 and had a forty year career there, eventually becoming their Chief Design Officer.…

Khosla Ventures’ operating partner for design, Irene Au, shares her thoughts on design, why it’s important, and how to make it central to your business....

Unfortunately, I have not seen one large technology-driven societal change in my forty-year career driven by “experts who know” or “larger, non-founder driven” entities because of their reliance on studies, consulting reports, projections to “extrapolate the…

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...

Imagine a world where passions emerge naturally, as people pursue what excites them without the pressure to secure a job or develop a career.…

I've seen technology reshape our world repeatedly. Previous technology platforms amplified human capabilities but didn't fundamentally alter the essence of human intellect. They extended our reach but didn't multiply our minds...

Imagine a world where passions emerge naturally, as people pursue what excites them without the pressure to secure a job or develop a career.…

AI doesn’t just extend us—it multiplies us, like engines did for muscle, transforming intellect and productivity.Near-free expertise for all could revolutionize healthcare, education, and justice, leveling global opportunity.Dystopia isn’t inevitable—smart policy, safety research, and democratic cho

What was the career trajectory of the peers who the candidate admired? What does that say about the candidate? How did candidate work with peers they admired or did not admire? How many people can the candidate get to follow them?…

Congratulations, you are now an executive at a venture-backed company! You survived the presentations, the term sheet shuffle and the due-diligence.