Vinod Khosla, the billionaire investor, said, "It's not enough to have facts on your side.
Vinod Khosla: One thing I would say is, "Find a big problem.
uh just after Khomeini had arrived. What is the Shah and what is Khomeini? Yeah, so the Shah uh the former monarch of
And so how did Khomeini take power of Iran? He led a movement, a mass populist
It comes from the Khoisan people in Southern Africa.
So we have khoya, which is when you cook milk down, and you just have the milk fat.
and ended up in Khorat or Ubon Ratchathani, and I went there to eat larb, duck larb.
us and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was also political prisoner who spent 10 years in penal colony, who used to be
The analogy that Vinod Khosla uses when you're climbing Mount Everest-- I'm going to get to a base camp.
Somebody like a Vinod Khosla likes to come in very early.
So it's the Khoi and the San in Africa, which we all came from, the Dalits in India.
Prior to Khosla Ventures, Irene ran product design at Audacity, and also led user experience at Google for six years,
So I'm Foutse Khomh, from Montreal and it's my honor to introduce to you our second keynote speaker, Dinah McNutt, from Google.
was founded by Vinod Khosla who's an IIT graduate. And many of India's IT leaders and politicians,
first time Khodorkovskii was convicted for not paying taxes. Now, he's convicted for stealing the, everything, the entire oil production that YUKOS extracted. And, in fact, if he
Kind of like a Khomeini, I suppose, of the Renaissance.
It's by Vinod Khosla. Do you guys know who Vinod Khosla is?
Why did you come to Khorat?
We were talking to Vinod Khosla yesterday, and he brought up that one company that he's aware of is trying to just think about automating driving trucks
He actually delivered that quote at a Khosla Summit, where he gathers the CEOs from all of his portfolio companies.
And that was the conference where Vinod Khosla walked on stage.
And their headquarters are here in Al Khobar.
Irene is an operating partner at Khosla Ventures, a VC firm known to most of us in Silicon Valley.
What's your take on the Khodorkovskii's case and do think the justice will prevail in the
Iran different when the Shah was in power versus when Khomeini was in power?
First, Sussan Khozouri is the Senior Director of Philanthropy and Partnerships at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, also known as the JDC.
was there to study the human genetics of KhoeSan hunter gatherers.
They probably heard the subsequent crack all the way in Kholinar.
So we created a Tinkering program in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, which is on the Gulf side of Saudi Arabia.
Yeah. When the Ayatollah Khomeini arrived, it was not clear that he was going to have an open invitation to rule.
And then we're gonna do something called 'Khozraschyot,' which is self-accounting." And that is decentralization of power.
uh was deposed was was um overthrown in a revolution and uh by Khomeini who was a senior cleric who had been a thorn in
In 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel 'The Satanic Verses', my colleagues and I were swept into what felt like
that paid most taxes per barrel of oil and because of the success of Khodor--, Mikhail Khodorkovskii and his team and his willingness to merge with multinational corporations and
In 2012, there was a lot of attention to what Vinod Khosla said about, he didn't want to see Dr. Varghese or Dr. Califf.
Heard there was a Navy SEAL that fell off a helicopter in the vicinity of an airfield in Khost.
That was February, '79 when the shah was being overthrown in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini was coming to power.
As Ruchika mentioned, I just joined as an operating partner at Khosla Ventures where I'm working with startups now on design, making design great.
and now he's reestablished his relationship with Jamukha, and so they decide to stay together, and they all go off to the Khokh Noor Valley.
But he's off now, we go back to the beginning, she's pregnant, they're in the Khokh Noor Valley, and he and Jamukha decide to renew their vows
the sort of royal leader, who was in power. He was overthrown in the late 1970s by Khomeini. Khomeini galvanized
power in the sort of 1980s, early 1980s, because the Khomeini comes in. The British lose that power with the fall of
OK. So the way that I came up with that name was many years ago, I was on the diesel railcar from Khorat
As you can see here, Afroasiatic and Saharan, Niger-Congo, Khoisan, and Austronesian.
It's ridiculous to have humans manage the level of complexity that we have inside the data center." And the quote is due to Vinod Khosla,
Yeah. You know, I brought up that slide of the Vinod Khosla.
If you have a great venture concept, there's only three things that-- and these are some of them-- this is Mike Moritz, Vinod Khosla, Kevin Efrusy at Accel,
And what we found was that some of the most abundant-- not surprisingly, but we found that some of the most abundant organisms in these KhoeSan people,
And there's been a great study in Peru of two different groups, one of hunter-gatherers like these KhoeSan people, and another of agriculturalists,
The young man grew up, went to Wharton, and is now at Khosla Partners, a venture capitalist out in Silicon Valley.