[tps_title]5) Vinod Khosla[/tps_title]
Rank: 328 | Net Worth: $1.4 billion
Khosla, 57, is a partner at Khosla Ventures. The Stanford and IIT alumnus “isn’t afraid to fail,”and has staked a big claim in clean tech—including on some companies he refers to as “science experiments.”
He also invested in an Indian microfinance company, SKS Microfinance, which lends small loans to poor women in rural India. Khosla is also one of the founders of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, and has guest-edited a special issue of The Economic Times(ET), a leading business newspaper in India.
Khosla was featured on Dateline NBC, where he discussed the practicality of ethanol as a gasoline substitute. He is known to have invested heavily in ethanol companies, in hopes of widespread adoption.
