Vinod Khosla is the Founder of Khosla Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with investments in OpenAI, Stripe, DoorDash, Commonwealth Fusion Systems and many more. Prior to founding Khosla, Vinod was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems. In Today's Episode with Vinod Khosla We Discuss: 1. The State of AI Today: Does Vinod believe we are in a bubble or is the excitement justified based on technological development? What are the single biggest lessons that Vinod has from prior bubbles? What is different about this time? What is Vinod concerned about with this AI bubble? 2. The Future of Healthcare and Music: How does Vinod evaluate the impact AI will have on the future of healthcare? How does Vinod analyse the impact AI will have on the future of music and content creation? Does Vinod believe that humans will resist these advancements? Who will be the laggards, slow to embrace it and who will be the early adopters? 3. Solving Income Inequality: Does Vinod believe AI does more to harm or to hurt income inequality? What mechanisms can be put in place to ensure that AI does not further concentrate wealth into the hands of the few? Does Vinod believe in universal basic income? What does everyone get wrong with UBI? 4. The Future of Energy, Climate and Politics: Why is forcing non-economic solutions the wrong approach to climate? What is the right approach? Why is Vinod so bullish on fusion and geothermal? How does fusion bankrupt entire industries? How does the advancements in energy and resource creation change global politics? Does Vinod believe Larry Summers was right; "China is a prison, Japan is a nursing home and Europe is a museum"? 5. Vinod Khosla: AMA: What is Vinod's single biggest investing miss? What does Vinod know now that he wishes he had known when he started investing? Why did the Taylor Swift concert have such a profound impact on him? What was Marc Andreesen like when he backed him with Netscape in 1996?

Vinod Khosla, the prolific AI investor, discusses OpenAI, Apple AI deals, and the future of AI advancements. Topics include: balance of small and big AI models, ChatGPT history, hot dog eating contest with Impossible Foods, AI impact on industries like content creation and healthcare, and political landscape in Silicon Valley.

Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures, shares his insights on the necessity of embracing the improbable in shaping the future. He discusses how AI and robotics are set to revolutionize medicine and labor, while also predicting significant shifts in education and public transit. Khosla emphasizes the importance of bold risks in innovation, the evolving landscape of mineral discovery, and the need for society to adapt to technological advancements with policies like universal basic income.

After Kara and Nayeema discuss Senators Warren and Graham’s unlikely alliance on tech regulation, we turn to today’s guest: longtime venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. We discuss his take that AI will “free humanity from the need to work,” his early investments in climate tech, and what happens in the techno-economic war between the United States and China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Learn from top founders and VCs like Marc Andreesen and Vinod Khosla about navigating the idea maze, internal motivation, critical thinking, and essential advice for startup founders. Palmer Luckey shares tips for young entrepreneurs while Aravind Srinivas provides guidance for students.

Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a firm focused on assisting entrepreneurs to build impactful new energy and technology companies. Previously he was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors.How to Build the Future is hosted by Sam Altman.***Topics00:30 - Vinod’s intro01:20 - A zero-million-dollar company vs a zero-billion-dollar company4:20 - What percentage of investors in Silicon Valley are good long-term company builders?4:50 - Who has earned the right to advise an entrepreneur?6:50 - Which risk to take when7:20 - Helpful board members8:15 - Who to trust for what advice11:00 - First principles thinking and rate of change13:00 - Evaluating a candidate in an interview14:15 - How much should a founder have planned and how ambitious should a founder be?16:30 - Recruiting great people19:00 - Building a phenomenal early team20:20 - Being generous with early employee equity27:00 - Gene pool engineering27:18 - The art, science, and labor of recruiting28:20 - How founders should think about investors31:00 - Doers vs pontificators32:00 - What does Vinod want to do in the next ten years?32:10 - Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology

Techno-optimist Vinod Khosla shares 12 bold predictions for the future of technology, including preventative medicine, car-free cities, supersonic flights, fusion power, and the importance of ethical decision-making in technology development.

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla discusses the potential for AI to revolutionize healthcare, enabling personalized care and reducing misdiagnosis. He emphasizes the importance of AI learning from humans, not the other way around, and shares real-world examples of AI in action. Khosla also highlights the need for guardrails in AI development and offers advice to healthcare founders on solving challenging problems.

Vinod Khosla discusses his contrarian bets at Khosla Ventures, investment thesis in AI, robotics, biotech, crypto, education, and transportation. They talk about strategic venture assistance, investing in crypto for real-world applications, and global engineering solutions. The focus is on navigating venture assistance, bold predictions for the future, and finding motivation in pursuing passions in investing.

Reid Hoffman and Vinod Khosla discuss AI governance, OpenAI-Microsoft partnership, AI investment priorities, and the risks of OpenAI. They explore immigration, China, and TikTok debates, as well as the importance of political contributions and AI regulation.