VINOD KHOSLA,
FOUNDER-KHOSLA VENTURES
Nearly 25 years after topping the inaugural Forbes Midas List, Vinod Khosla reclaimed the #1 position in 2026 — powered by his prescient $50 million OpenAI investment in 2019, years before ChatGPT captured the world’s attention. An IIT Delhi and Stanford MBA alumnus who co-founded Sun Microsystems, his firm now manages $15 billion across 1,500+ investments — backing OpenAI, DoorDash, Impossible Foods, and Anthropic — making him the most consequential venture capitalist of the AI era.
