Vinod Khosla: checked claims

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Each kind of claim is scored on its own, out of 100: the share that held up, with the range it likely falls in. Fewer resolved claims give a wider range.

Factual claims

Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

72 64 80

Medium confidence, 43 factual claims resolved. From 11 documents, 2007 to 2024; 19 documents sampled from 31 candidates found.

Not scored: 44 unresolvable, 21 checkable only against their own records.

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Predictions

Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

58 40 75

Low confidence, 9 predictions resolved. From 2 documents, 2007 to 2010; 19 documents sampled from 31 candidates found.

Not scored: 46 unresolvable, 1 checkable only against their own records. 15 more fall due later.
Does not yet allow for how likely each prediction was when made.

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All types combined: 70 (likely 62 to 77, high confidence), from 52 claims: 43 factual claims, 9 predictions. It mixes kinds of claim in different proportions for different people, so compare people kind by kind.

Vinod Khosla's claims

22 claims

22 claims, sorted by newest said. Choose a claim to read it in full.
Verdict	Kind	Said	Claim	Topic
Own records only	Factual	9 Apr 2024	After moving to America, Khosla got to know Andy Grove fairly well and told him the story of reading about him in magazines. Factual · 9 Apr 2024	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	9 Apr 2024	In 2007 Khosla called Andy Grove and asked him to speak to Khosla Ventures' founders. Factual · 9 Apr 2024	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	9 Apr 2024	Used magazines rented in old Delhi during Khosla's youth came from the U.S. and Europe and were therefore dated. Factual · 9 Apr 2024	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	9 Apr 2024	When Andy Grove said he would talk about why electric vehicles are better than biofuels, Khosla told him to go ahead. Factual · 9 Apr 2024	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	24 Feb 2020	Khosla Ventures does not allow IRR calculations when making an investment and never looks at them. Factual · 24 Feb 2020	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	24 Feb 2020	Khosla Ventures did not sell many of its portfolio companies and held on to them. Factual · 24 Feb 2020	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	24 Feb 2020	Vinod Khosla does not attend many board meetings now. Factual · 24 Feb 2020	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	24 Feb 2020	When investing in Impossible Foods, Khosla Ventures made clear it would pass up profit rather than sell the company to a food company that might divert its mission. Factual · 24 Feb 2020	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	24 Feb 2020	Vinod Khosla interviews roughly eight to ten people a week, mostly for Khosla Ventures portfolio companies. Factual · 24 Feb 2020	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	15 Jun 2019	Most of a conversation centered on Vinod Khosla's 2017 piece and his 2014 piece on the need to worry about increasing income disparity. Factual · 15 Jun 2019	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	14 Jan 2014	To the best of Khosla's knowledge, more than 90% of funding for the Khosla Ventures cleantech portfolio has come from private sources. Factual · 14 Jan 2014	Economics and markets
Own records only	Factual	14 Jan 2014	Khosla Ventures strongly opposed Range Fuels' decision to take federal loan money. Factual · 14 Jan 2014	Economics and markets
Own records only	Factual	14 Jan 2014	Khosla Ventures expects 50 percent of its portfolio companies to make money, and its cleantech portfolio is currently profitable. Factual · 14 Jan 2014	Economics and markets
Own records only	Factual	7 Dec 2013	Khosla Ventures considers long tenure at a big company such as Hewlett-Packard or Cisco a negative when hiring. Factual · 7 Dec 2013	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	7 Dec 2013	Vinod Khosla has never calculated IRR when making an investment. Factual · 7 Dec 2013	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	23 Dec 2010	Khosla told his investors when starting the fund that they were non-fiduciary investors and not to count on them being fiduciary. Factual · 23 Dec 2010	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	23 Dec 2010	The capital needed for Khosla's clean tech and main tech portfolio companies to reach cash-flow break even, IPO or sale is no different from that of his information technology and telecom investments over 15 years at Kleiner. Factual · 23 Dec 2010	Economics and markets
Own records only	Prediction	23 Dec 2010	Khosla's lighting companies and air-conditioning companies will each need $50 million to break even. Prediction · 23 Dec 2010	Economics and markets
Own records only	Factual	23 Dec 2010	Khosla Ventures has plenty of money to invest and probably made more investments in 2010 than in 2009, and more in 2009 than in 2008. Factual · 23 Dec 2010	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	23 Dec 2010	Khosla reviewed two dozen algae business plans and found that none works. Factual · 23 Dec 2010	Technology
Own records only	Factual	29 Sep 2010	Vinod Khosla does not invest in anything that cannot achieve market competitiveness within five years. Factual · 29 Sep 2010	Their own work or organisation
Own records only	Factual	28 Sep 2007	Khosla invests in all energy approaches he thinks might be viable. Factual · 28 Sep 2007	Their own work or organisation

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Vinod Khosla

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Factual Their own work or organisation

“Once I moved to America and began my journey, I got to know Andy pretty well and told him that story.”

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

After moving to America, Khosla got to know Andy Grove fairly well and told him the story of reading about him in magazines.

Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.

Reasoning

Private conversation between Khosla and Grove.

Cite this claim

Vinod Khosla, “After moving to America, Khosla got to know Andy Grove fairly well and told him the story of reading about him in magazines.” (said 9 April 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_215bf96e6d33, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_215bf96e6d33

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