CONTRIBUTING TO A GREENER WORLD KNOW ABOUT VINOD KHOSLA
Wishesh|January 2020
While we are at the brink of experience the worst climatic conditions, entrepreneurs and industrialists from across the world aren’t bothered enough to do their part. Indian American billionaire Vinod Khosla is an exception to the list.
CONTRIBUTING TO A GREENER WORLD KNOW ABOUT VINOD KHOSLA

With so much wealth at his disposal, Vinod Khosla has made it is life’s mission to make this world a better place to live in, thus helping contribute his parts to restoring a “greener” Earth. He has reportedly invested over $450 million of his earnings to further contribute to greener initiatives including ethanol factories, solar-power parks and several others.

Early life

Born on January 28, 1955, Vinod Khosla was born to an Army family where his father was an officer in the Indian Army and was based around in New Delhi. Khosla did his schooling from Mount St. Mary’s School. Following his encounter with the founding of Intel that was published in the Electronic Engineering Times as a teenager was what drove him to make an impact on the lives of the people and the society. That is where he got his inspiration from.

This was also the reason that drove him to pursue a career in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He did his B.Tech in electrical engineering from the said institute. Apart from that, he also pursued master’s degree from the Carnegie Mellon University followed by his MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Career

Following acquiring all the educational degrees, Khosla knew that his ideas weren’t supposed to be bound by the traditional desk jobs that he was offered for a good sum of money.

But, following his completion of MBA, Khosla worked for Daisy Systems which is a popular electronic automation company. This was in 1980.

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