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Vinod Khosla is a Venture Capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley . He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the Venture Capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986 . In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures. Khosla's career motivation began when reading about the founding of , India (Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering ), Carnegie Mellon University (Masters in Biomedical Engineering), and Stanford Graduate School Of Business (MBA). After graduating from Stanford University in 1979 , Khosla along with his Stanford fellows Scott McNealy , Andy Bechtolsheim (another Carnegie Mellon graduate school alumnus), and a UC Berkeley Masters Degree holder named Bill Joy founded Sun Microsystems. Khosla left Sun in 1985 . Khosla is also one of the founding fathers of The Indus Entrepreneurs , and has guest-edited a special issue of Economic Times (ET), a leading business newspaper in India. He has four children. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Founding companies
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