ClaimsVinod Khosla

“Nobody I knew had a business or tech background, and there weren’t any role models in India at that time.”

Vinod Khosla, writing a letter reply 9 April 2024 Letters to a Young Founder: Vinod Khosla (The Generalist) archived copy

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During Khosla's youth, nobody he knew had a business or tech background and India had no such role models.

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Reasoning

Claim about everyone he knew and India's role models is too sweeping to test.

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Vinod Khosla, “During Khosla's youth, nobody he knew had a business or tech background and India had no such role models.” (said 9 April 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_b8d08319c8d3, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b8d08319c8d3

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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