ClaimsVinod Khosla

“Quantumscape incubated at @khoslaventures with 5 time CEO and EIR Jagdeep Singh.”

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, on X 4 September 2020 Post by @vkhosla on X, 2020-09-04 (X)

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Quantumscape was incubated at Khosla Ventures with five-time CEO and entrepreneur-in-residence Jagdeep Singh.

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The claim has three parts: (a) QuantumScape was incubated at Khosla Ventures; (b) Jagdeep Singh was an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) at Khosla Ventures when it was incubated; (c) Singh had been CEO about five times by then (QuantumScape counted or not). True: credible records (QuantumScape's S-4/proxy or 10-K filings, Khosla Ventures or QuantumScape announcements, contemporaneous press) show QuantumScape was started or incubated within Khosla Ventures with Singh as EIR there, and that he had been CEO of roughly five companies. Mostly true: incubation and the EIR role are confirmed but the CEO count is off by one (four or six) or depends on whether QuantumScape is counted. Mixed: incubation is confirmed but the EIR role is not (for example, KV was only an early outside investor in a company Singh started on his own), or the reverse. Mostly false: KV was an early or seed investor but the company was not incubated there and Singh was not a KV EIR. False: KV had no early role in founding the company, or Singh had no tie to KV at founding.

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Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Jagdeep Singh of QuantumScape wants to be a captain of industry Global Indian Times · 3 September 2020

    ““When we backed QuantumScape ten years ago, we knew it was a bold vision to transform one of the world's largest industries,” said Vinod Khosla, of Khosla Ventures and a member of the company’s board of directors in a statement.”

  2. E2 Jagdeep Singh of QuantumScape wants to be a captain of industry Global Indian Times · 3 September 2020

    “Founded by Jagdeep (Jay) Singh in 2010, the San Jose, California based company is developing solid-state lithium batteries for electric vehicles.”

  3. E3 Jagdeep Singh of QuantumScape wants to be a captain of industry Global Indian Times · 3 September 2020

    “In 1998, Singh founded Lightera Networks, a telecommunications hardware company. It was acquired a year later by Ciena for $429 million. Singh stayed on as president of Ciena’s core switching division for less than a year.”

  4. E4 QuantumScape: Company Overview ventureatlas.org

    “QuantumScape was founded in San Jose in 2010 by Jagdeep Singh, battery scientist Tim Holme, and Stanford professor Fritz Prinz, and it spent most of its first decade in stealth while refining the ceramic-separator chemistry.”

Reasoning

E1 shows that Khosla Ventures backed QuantumScape about ten years before 2020 and that Vinod Khosla sits on its board. It does not say the company was incubated at KV. E2 and E4 say Jagdeep Singh founded or co-founded QuantumScape in 2010, but neither mentions KV incubation or an entrepreneur-in-residence role. E3 lists Singh's earlier ventures but does not say how many times he had been CEO. The evidence confirms only that KV was an early backer, so it cannot settle whether the company was incubated there, whether Singh was an EIR, or the CEO count.

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Vinod Khosla, “Quantumscape was incubated at Khosla Ventures with five-time CEO and entrepreneur-in-residence Jagdeep Singh.” (said 4 September 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_fe02b940aaba, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fe02b940aaba

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