Few figures within the tech trade have earned the storied status of Vinod Khosla, founder and companion at Khosla Ventures. For over 40 years, he has been on the heart of Silicon Valley, constructing or backing a few of the largest, most influential tech firms. His profession stems from his days as founding father of Solar Microsystems and spans many years of enterprise investing. Khosla’s agency right now is thought for its stakes in firms like Affirm, Block, DoorDash, GitLab, Okta, and Opendoor, to call a couple of of the tons of of profitable portfolio firms.
Lately, he’s on the heart of OpenAI as one of many first VCs to again the corporate, writing a $50 million test again in 2019, years earlier than ChatGPT captured the world’s consideration.
All the time future centered, Khosla might be our visitor for a must-see keynote session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 this October, the place he’ll focus on the foremost expertise tendencies altering our lives.
Khosla believes synthetic intelligence will change the construction of human society, enabling 7 billion individuals to reside the way in which 700 million do. He sees a future the place AI offers limitless docs, lecturers, and laborers. And he’s investing in applied sciences that change our meals and the economies to provide it, that produce new medication and therapies, and in new constructing and manufacturing supplies.
This wave of change will include its set of points, he warns: job displacement, inequity, scare mongering and misplaced regulation.
However finally he says he’s optimistic about what’s attainable, and to those that wish to be a part of this highly effective new future, he’ll share recommendation on what they need to do now.
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