Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Vinod Khosla is an Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Philanthropist. It was an honor to have a conversation with the Silicon Valley legend that I've admired for many years. Vinod co-founded Sun Microsystems over 30 years ago, a company that grew to over 36,000 employees and invented so much foundational software technology like the Java programming language, NFS, and they pretty much mainstreamed the 'idea' of open source. After a successful exit, he's been using his billionaire status to invest in ambitious technologists trying to improve human life. He's got the coolest investment portfolio I've seen yet, and in this hour long interview we discuss everything from AI to education to startup culture. I know that my microphone volume should be higher in this one, I'll fix that the next podcast. Enjoy!
Time markers of our discussion topics below:
2:55 The Future of Education
4:36 Vinod's Dream of an AI Tutor
5:50 Vinod Offers Siraj a Job
6:35 Choose your Teacher with DeepFakes
8:04 Mathematical Models
9:10 Books Vinod Loves
11:00 What is Learning?
14:00 The Flaws of Liberal Arts Degrees
16:10 Indian Culture
21:11 A Day in the Life of Vinod Khosla
23:50 Valuing Brutal Honesty
24:30 Distributed File Storage
30:30 Where are we Headed?
33:32 Vinod on Nick Bostrom
38:00 Vinod's Rockstar Recruiting Ability
43:00 The Next Industries to Disrupt
49:00 Vinod Offers Siraj Funding for an AI Tutor
51:48 Virtual Reality
52:00 Contrarian Beliefs
54:00 Vinod's Love of Learning
55:30 USA vs China
Vinod's 'Awesome' Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=STtAsDCKEck
Khosla Ventures Blog posts:
khoslaventures.com/blog/all
Books we discussed:
Scale by Geoffrey West:
amzn.to/2rs7UV7
Factfulness by Hans Roesling:
amzn.to/2GHUlgg
Mindset by Carol Dwicke:
amzn.to/2icCNey
36 Dramatic Situations by Mike Figgis:
amzn.to/2ol14Vi
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari:
amzn.to/2amA7J5
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari:
amzn.to/2PKIJZY
The Third Pillar by Raghuram R:
bit.ly/2ASU98K
Zero to One by Peter Thiel:
amzn.to/2ae3NTM
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Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1468351190/siraj-raval-podcast
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Learn Machine Learning in 3 Months for free:
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My Startup Tutorial Playlist:
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Vinod Khosla is an Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Philanthropist. It was an honor to have a conversation with the Silicon Valley legend that I've admired for many years. Vinod co-founded Sun Microsystems over 30 years ago, a company that grew to over 36,000 employees and invented so much foundational software technology like the Java programming language, NFS, and they pretty much mainstreamed the 'idea' of open source. After a successful exit, he's been using his billionaire status to invest in ambitious technologists trying to improve human life. He's got the coolest investment portfolio I've seen yet, and in this hour long interview we discuss everything from AI to education to startup culture. I know that my microphone volume should be higher in this one, I'll fix that the next podcast. Enjoy!
Time markers of our discussion topics below:
2:55 The Future of Education
4:36 Vinod's Dream of an AI Tutor
5:50 Vinod Offers Siraj a Job
6:35 Choose your Teacher with DeepFakes
8:04 Mathematical Models
9:10 Books Vinod Loves
11:00 What is Learning?
14:00 The Flaws of Liberal Arts Degrees
16:10 Indian Culture
21:11 A Day in the Life of Vinod Khosla
23:50 Valuing Brutal Honesty
24:30 Distributed File Storage
30:30 Where are we Headed?
33:32 Vinod on Nick Bostrom
38:00 Vinod's Rockstar Recruiting Ability
43:00 The Next Industries to Disrupt
49:00 Vinod Offers Siraj Funding for an AI Tutor
51:48 Virtual Reality
52:00 Contrarian Beliefs
54:00 Vinod's Love of Learning
55:30 USA vs China
Vinod's 'Awesome' Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=STtAsDCKEck
Khosla Ventures Blog posts:
khoslaventures.com/blog/all
Books we discussed:
Scale by Geoffrey West:
amzn.to/2rs7UV7
Factfulness by Hans Roesling:
amzn.to/2GHUlgg
Mindset by Carol Dwicke:
amzn.to/2icCNey
36 Dramatic Situations by Mike Figgis:
amzn.to/2ol14Vi
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari:
amzn.to/2amA7J5
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari:
amzn.to/2PKIJZY
The Third Pillar by Raghuram R:
bit.ly/2ASU98K
Zero to One by Peter Thiel:
amzn.to/2ae3NTM
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INSTAGRAM: bit.ly/312pLUb
FACEBOOK: bit.ly/2OqOhx1
TWITTER: bit.ly/2OHYLbB
WEBSITE: bit.ly/2OoVPQF
Find my podcast on these sites:
iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/siraj-raval-podcast/id1468351190
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/sirajraval
Google Podcasts: google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iZmIxMGMwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4qf0D4LRvdlfZBkq1qqywT
Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/siraj-raval-podcast
Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1468351190/siraj-raval-podcast
iTunes:
Learn Machine Learning in 3 Months for free:
youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6VqTRO1v0
My Startup Tutorial Playlist:
youtube.com/watch?v=oeraUtRgsbI&list=PL2-dafEMk2A4n3aP_rzgqA8lVGknkSN2p
Join us in the Wizards Slack channel:
wizards.herokuapp.com
Hit the Join button above to sign up to become a member of my channel for access to exclusive live streams!
Join us at the School of AI:
theschool.ai
Signup for my newsletter for exciting updates in the field of AI:
goo.gl/FZzJ5w
And please support me on Patreon:
patreon.com/user?u=3191693 Join my AI community: chatgptschool.io Sign up for my AI Sports betting Bot, WagerGPT! (500 spots available): https://www.wagergpt.xyz
