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Vinod Khosla Lauded For Pioneering Investments In OpenAI And Hard Tech

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Original postBlake Byers

My “Im sorry you were traumatized by Vinod falling asleep in your meeting” post is raising questions my “Im sorry you were traumatized by Vinod falling asleep in your meeting” post was intended to answer.

Blake Byers@byersblake

Im sorry you were traumatized by Vinod falling asleep in your meeting. But he founded one of the pioneering companies of the modern computer industry (Eric Schmidt worked for him there), has the highest ever multiple and IRR at exit in Kleiner Perkins history ($7B return on $3M invested in only 3 years) and while everyone was investing in SaaS throughout the 2010s, Vinod was funding the first round of companies building battery tech, rocket launch, fusion, genomics, carbon tech and a little AI research lab called OpenAI. And he did this while hitting grand slams and raising multi billion dollar funds. He is one of the truest VCs to ever do it.

2:36 PM · Jun 6, 2026 · 160.5K Views
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Positive users praise Vinod Khosla as a legendary investor for backing OpenAI and supporting founders during crises, while negative users call him an asshole and criticize anecdotes about equity grabs, firing attempts, and NIMBY beach lock.

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Max@eddylong33

@byersblake I think people are more traumatized by the anecdote about him trying to fire two cofounders and take equity after only have dinner with them.

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Gabriel@Real___Gabriel

@byersblake Khosla don’t surf.

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Daniel@danielzohan1

@byersblake @hkanji I’m amazing you could write this tweet so far up his ass

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Assad Ullah@adeeonline

@byersblake I don't think you read this one about Vinod Khosla, who does this kind of shit?

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christiano boria@christianoboria

@byersblake No one said he was a bad investor actually

This is an irrelevant point entirely, Blake

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John Dagdelen@jmdagdelen

@byersblake As far as I saw, he wasn’t being accused of falling asleep. He’s being accused of trying to push founders out of their companies and asking founders to back-stab each other in order to get a term sheet.

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Stefano@stefanoscalia

@byersblake Isn’t he the guy who’s blocking off access to a beach?

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Blake Byers@byersblake

Yeah. Seems Bad. But (1) I didn’t excuse that comment. I only referred to sleepy Vinod (which has happened!) and (2) since it appears he never actually conspiratorially stole equity in over 700 portfolio companies over 30 years (pretty big sample size!) it’s hard to get too worked up judging him for that comment alone (which yes, bad).

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Kellan Grenier@kellangrenier

@byersblake Funnily enough none of that addresses the primary claim at issue: that he is a crap human being

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Ron Alfa@Ronalfa

@byersblake He also still does more work today himself than anyone.

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smooth normie@smooth_normie

@adeeonline @byersblake I do not trust a word out of that compulsive liars mouth

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Aria Churchill@Aria_Churchill

@byersblake everyone has their goods and bads. it is just that the more hardcore you are the more hardcore the goods and bads are

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buyhighsellhigher@ebitdaddy90

@byersblake Hope he sees this lil bro

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worldcraft@worldcr48747071

@byersblake Is this cope or stupidity? No one accused Vinod of falling asleep, just of being an unethical prick.

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Santiago M.@sanmking

@byersblake Absolutely! Greatness can be easily misinterpreted, and rarely comes without confrontation:

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Russell Fernandez@Russellx2000

@byersblake Last time I checked, all of this was from a founder pov, not an LP pov

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Ihar Mahaniok@mahaniok

@smooth_normie @adeeonline @byersblake what was the lie exactly? he didn't block Kiwifarms?

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Julie Fredrickson@AlmostMedia

@byersblake Sure he’s the GOAT but he’s a NIMBY about that beach and young Americans take that shit personally.

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P Shekter@neocon53

@byersblake That doesn’t mean he’s not a total asshole and horrible person. Try to walk on the beach near his house.

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Catch Vartan@catchvartan

@byersblake Man, the nepobabies get defensive.

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