 vinod khosla (gurmukhi: à¨µà¨¿à¨¨à©à¨¦ à¨à©à¨¸à¨²à¨¾; born 28 january 1955) is an american businessman listed by forbes magazine as a billionaire. khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of sun microsystems, a company which created the java programming language and network file system (nfs) after his departure as founding ceo and chairman in the early 1980s. ==early life and education== khosla's father was an officer in the indian army and was posted at new delhi, india. khosla read about the founding of intel in electronic engineering times at the age of fourteen and this inspired him to pursue technology as a career. he went on to receive multiple degrees from the indian institute of technology delhi (bachelor of technology in electrical engineering), carnegie mellon university (masters in biomedical engineering), and stanford graduate school of business (mba). ==career== after graduating from stanford university in 1980, khosla worked for electronic design automation company daisy systems. then in 1982, khosla co-founded sun microsystems (sun is the acronym for the stanford university network), along with stanford classmates scott mcnealy, andy bechtolsheim, and uc berkeley computer science graduate student bill joy. khosla served as the first chairman and ceo of sun microsystems from 1982 to 1984, when he left the company to become a venture capitalist. in 1987, khosla joined the venture capital firm kleiner perkins caufield & byers as a general partner. at kleiner, khosla became a recognized venture capitalist, with several successful early stage investments. khosla also played a key role with several of the tech industry's most spectacular failures, including asera, dynabook, broadband office, excite@home, and many others. he 
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