Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures 2014-07-03 | ...
Winning as an Outsider: Building Something So Good It Can’t Be Ignored | Virgilio Bento Khosla Ventures 2023-07-20 | ...
Crypto: Reimagining Trusted Institutions and Intermediaries | Avichal Garg Khosla Ventures 2023-07-17 | ...
Ups & Downs: The Startup Rollercoaster | Dave Girouard and David Weiden Khosla Ventures 2023-07-06 | ...
How to Conquer Imposter Syndrome, and Become a Tech CEO Khosla Ventures 2022-12-22 | Shellye Archambeau has encountered a lot of obstacles in life, but her ability to navigate around them has proved almost superhuman. Archambeau talks about deciding - as a teenager - that she wanted to be a CEO, and how she navigated the business world to make that happen. How do you deal with a company that’s not paying you enough? That won’t promote you? That becomes complacent? And what happens when your break comes along in the middle of a tech meltdown? Archambeau tells her own story, and offers lots of advice along the way.
Dheeraj Pandey Wants to Change CRM. Can He? Khosla Ventures 2022-11-16 | When Dheeraj Pandey co-founded the cloud computing company Nutanix in 2009, the economy was shaky. Housing was turbulent. And interest rates had moved dramatically. Sound familiar? Nutanix would grow into a multibillion dollar company, and now, Pandey is back at the start-up game. He’s trying to change CRM, though it’s a tough time to be challenging entrenched ways of doing things. How will he weather the storm? And what does he consider his secret weapons in business?
Instigators of Change | Why Entrepreneurs Ignore an Aging America - at their peril Khosla Ventures 2022-10-27 | 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 she wasn’t retiring - she was “forever evolving.” And Coughlin believes that Williams’ sentiment is a sign of the times. Average Americans are getting older. They’re living longer. They want to evolve. And, by the way, they hold the vast majority of the nation’s wealth. But many entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate leaders still believe they should market to young people. And that’s despite the fact that Americans have been having fewer kids for decades, meaning that young people are in short supply. Coughlin joins us for a reality check - and a look at an enormous (and growing) opportunity.
Instigators of Change | Jeff Wilke: From Amazon Exec to Rebuilding American Manufacturing Khosla Ventures 2022-10-13 | When Jeff Wilke left Amazon in 2021, where - since 2016 - he had served as CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, his next chapter could have focused on rest and relaxation. After all, Wilke had been at Amazon for more than 20 years, and had seen it grow from a modest-sized bookseller to a worldwide behemoth. But Wilke believes the American economy - and national security - is dependent on luring manufacturing back to our shores. He explains why manufacturing is his new passion and why his new company has acquired so many small firms recently. Plus, how is he advising start-up founders now? And how does he see the consumer changing?
Instigators of Change | What Evidence Shows About Who Really Succeeds in Business Khosla Ventures 2022-09-29 | You might call Ethan Mollick a man obsessed. And he probably wouldn’t mind. Because Mollick - a high-profile professor at The Wharton School - is obsessed with data, which dispels a lot of the myths around startups. Like: Do twenty somethings have the most successful startups? Nope, it’s forty-somethings. Are teams more successful than solo founders? Don’t bet on it. Is brainstorming a great way to start a meeting? Not a chance. Join us for a discussion about what works in business, and what doesn’t (and be prepared to be surprised).
Instigators of Change | Siddhartha Mukherjee and Anand Parikh On A New Way To Fight Cancer Khosla Ventures 2022-09-21 | 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 die from cancer every single year. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and cancer physician Siddhartha Mukherjee says that, in some ways, the scientific community has failed - and it must embrace new approaches. One of the most promising of those approaches, he believes, is to starve cancer of the nutrients it needs. We speak with Mukherjee, a co-founder of Faeth Therapeutics, along with its CEO, Anand Parikh, about how to turn food into medicine, the results they’ve seen so far, and how quickly the FDA may act.
Instigators of Change | Why Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar Took A Big Career Risk Khosla Ventures 2022-09-15 | 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 she left, and how her childhood in a conflict-plagued part of Northern Ireland factored into the decision. Plus, if you're building a company now, how should you navigate this tricky economic environment? How should you think about funding, layoffs, and communication? Friar offers her honest advice, and explains how weathering a downturn can help you create an even stronger company.
Instigators of Change | From Cute Cats to Political Upheaval: How YouTube Changed The World Khosla Ventures 2022-09-07 | In 2005, a small company began offering up a way to post amateur videos on the web. YouTube operated on a shoestring, with its founders maxing out credit cards, and debating what the company was really about. The next year, Google - sensing that YouTube would be a powerful force in search - acquired them. This week, author Mark Bergen tells the story of YouTube’s strange birth and breakneck path to success. Plus, the company’s epic battles against traditional media, and the culture clash that followed its acquisition by Google.
Loonshots: Imagining The Impossible | Safi Bahcall Khosla Ventures 2022-08-15 | A short clip of Safi Bahcall, author of Loonshots, on innovation, experimentation and more.
How to Present to Win | Jerry Weissman Khosla Ventures 2022-08-12 | Jerry Weissman, founder and president of Suasive, on presenting to win.
On Culture | Ben Horowitz with David Weiden Khosla Ventures 2022-08-11 | Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, in conversation with David Weiden on creating culture at work and where we sometimes go wrong.
Women: Is It Getting Better? | Celine Halioua | Nikki Pechet | Raquel Urtasun | Shernaz Daver Khosla Ventures 2022-08-10 | Shernaz Daver leads a discussion on women in tech with Celine Halioua, founder and CEO of Loyal, Nikki Pechet, co-founder and CEO of Homebound and Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of Waabi.
Just Work: Disaggregate Bias Prejudice & Bullying to Create a Kickass Culture | Kim Scott Khosla Ventures 2022-08-09 | Kim Scott, Co-Founder of Radical Candor & Just Work, shares insights on company culture and how to avoid biases in recruiting, hiring and mentoring.
The Role of Venture Capital in Society | Sebastian Mallaby with Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures 2022-08-08 | Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law, sits down with Vinod Khosla to discuss venture capital and the outsized role it plays in todays society.
Covid. Capitulation: Where are We and What Can We Expect? | Eric Topol Khosla Ventures 2022-08-05 | Eric Topol, MD EVP and Professor, Scripps Research Institute, gives a view into where we are with Covid-19 and where we are headed next.
Can We Replace Every Coal Plant by 2040? | Bob Mumgaard with Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures 2022-08-04 | Bob Mumgaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion, sits down with Vinod Khosla to discuss fusion - both where we are today and the progress he expects to make sooner than most might think.
Operating During a Downturn | David Sacks Khosla Ventures 2022-08-03 | David Sacks, Co-Founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures, shares timely advice on how to survive a downturn.
The Dark Matter of Nutrition: From the Foodome to Network Medicine | Albert-László Barabási Khosla Ventures 2022-08-02 | Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Professor at Northeastern University, on food and how it impacts diseases and our health.
CEO Rituals | Sarah Friar Khosla Ventures 2022-08-01 | Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor, shares some insights from her CEO "playbook" on how to be a successful leader at a time where expectations are rising.
Instigators of Change | Ben Horowitz on Building Company Culture Khosla Ventures 2022-07-30 | Ben Horowitz isn’t afraid to pick favorites when it comes to great CEOs. Like Andy Grove, the former head of Intel. Grove didn’t put up with any nonsense, Horowitz says, because he was singularly focused on what it takes to achieve and maintain greatness. In our next show from KV’s CEO Summit, Horowitz - the co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz - talks openly with KV Founding Partner David Weiden about gaining the trust of your employees, why executives often approach diversity the wrong way, and what he’s learned from coaching CEOs who are furiously scaling up their businesses.
Instigators of Change | Star In a Bottle: Can Fusion Solve Our Energy Crisis? Khosla Ventures 2022-07-30 | Imagine if we could harness the power of a star, right here on Earth. Our energy challenges, as we know them, would disappear. That’s the promise of fusion technology, a way of generating electricity that scientists have been working on for decades, but have never quite cracked. Are we any closer in 2022? Commonwealth Fusion Technology, a venture-backed company spun out of MIT, is working on a prototype reactor that they believe could begin replacing conventional power plants as early as 2030. Commonwealth’s CEO Bob Mumgaard recently sat down with Vinod Khosla at KV's CEO Summit in the Bay Area to talk about how their technology works, what challenges have yet to be overcome, and what fusion would mean for the planet.
