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2026 Milestone: Vinod Khosla's early bet on OpenAI has cemented him as the world's leading AI visionary. His net worth has more than doubled since 2021, now standing at $12.1 Billion . Vinod Khosla was born to an army officer in New Delhi on January 28, 1955. His fascination with technology began as a teenager reading about Intel. After graduating from IIT Delhi (where he started the institute's first computer club), he earned an MS from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from Stanford. In 1982, he co-founded Sun Microsystems , the company that gave the world the Java programming language. Under his leadership, Sun reached $1 billion in sales in record time. Today, he runs Khosla Ventures , a firm that manages over $15 billion and invests in "impossible" technologies like fusion energy and synthetic biology. The "Black Swan" Investor ...

Kavitark Ram Shriram: Founding Director of Google It all began at Stanford University where Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students working on the PageRank algorithm . When they decided to float their own company, they approached Kavitark Ram Shriram . Ram signed one of the first-ever cheques to fund Google—a $500,000 investment that changed tech history. Kavitark Ram was born in Bangalore and raised in Chennai. Despite losing his father at the age of three, his academic journey was stellar. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Loyola College (Madras University) and an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Before becoming a billionaire angel investor, Ram held key roles at Netscape and served as President of Junglee (acquired by Amazon). He worked closely with Jeff Bezos as a Vice President at Amazon before launching his own firm, Sher...