Vinod Khosla

Billionaire, Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor

Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas such as networking, software, and alternative energy technologies.

Vinod Khosla's 78 Book Recommendations

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• The Success Equation
• Only the Paranoid Survive
• The Invisible Gorilla
• The Score Takes Care of Itself
• Antifragile
• The Seventh Sense
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The Line Becomes a River
• Negotiating the Impossible
• Skin in the Game
• The Third Pillar
• Why We Sleep
• The Peacemaker's Code
• The Uninhabitable Earth
• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
• Winners Take All
• Range
• Loonshots
• The Inflamed Mind
• The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
• The Coddling of the American Mind
• The Formula
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
• The Jungle Grows Back
• The Future of Capitalism
• Blitzscaling
• Atomic Habits
• Lifespan
• How to Change Your Mind
• Friday Black
• An Elegant Defense
• Life on the Edge
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• The Master Algorithm
• This is Your Brain on Music
• Mindfulness in Plain English
• McMafia
• Homo Deus
• Scale
• Sapiens
• Other People's Money
• The Last Days of Night
• The Case Against Sugar
• The Brand Flip
• From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
• Drunk Tank Pink
• Eating the Big Fish
• Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
• Deep Learning
• Against Empathy
• Behave
• 1984: “Memories! Was required reading (along with Kafka) in undergraduate engineering school”
• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
• High Growth Handbook: “I recommend reading!”
• Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age: “Really good book if you want to understand social media & people as an app: Cognitive Surplus”
• Nuclear War: A Scenario: “Recommended reading: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen”
• Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World: “My 2012 BOOKs: Automate this : Steiner 3STARS --- great topic adequately covered but could be more interesting”
• The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't: “My 2012 BOOKs: The Cost Disease : Baumol 4 STARS -- a very new point of view and somewhat unique thesis; definitely worth a read”
• The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age: “2011 Books: Viral Storm — engrossing, entertaining & insightful story of unexpected consequences of events”
• On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not: “2011 Books: On Being Certain —why we believe we are right even when we are not. 1 of my 2 favorite books for the year”
• Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground: “2011 Books: Kingpin -- Mildly entertaining hacker world story and personal battles therein.”
• Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better: “2011Books-Future Babble: Mybest book of 2011. Why expert predictions are worthless & how to do better. My pitch exactly”
• A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form: “2011Books Mathematician's Lament: better way to teach math. Wish he had ideas to fit state curriculums. Important book”
• Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World: “2011 Books Experimental Man-interesting but not yet compelling science. Important precursor to what is to come.”
• Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe: “Highly recommend reading "Not born Yesterday"”
• Spurious Correlations: “If you want to enjoy great fun nonsense I highly recommend Spurious Correlations!”
• When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century: “Recommend reading ... Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century”
• Lying: “2017 Book Recommendation of the Day: Lying by @SamHarrisOrg”
• The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It: “Just finished: Age of the Unthinkable. Great book on why old models of experts/pundits/gurus doesn't work in economics, politics or war”
• Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World: “Recommended Reading: Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World”
• Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril: “Highly recommended reading if you value the need speak up ... Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril”
• True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society: “Highly recommend this old book: "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society" by @fmanjoo”
• What You Do Is Who You Are: “For me, it shows the value of having principles an organization and its leaders believe in and can stick with when it gets hard to do so and real tradeoffs are involved.”
• Expert Political Judgment: “Recommend reading: Expert Political Judgement or Future Babble”
• Why We're Polarized: “True of most media. Recommend Erza Klein's "Why we are polarized"”
• Love You Forever: “I'd recommend "I Love You Forever"”
• Deep Medicine: “I can recommend it highly!”