Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is a pioneering Indian American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist, renowned for co-founding Sun Microsystems and his influential investments in technology startups through Khosla Ventures.
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This Is Your Brain on Music
Fascinating though older book. - Vinod Khosla
Daniel J. Levitin
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The Formula
This book transforms how our success-obsessed society approaches their professional careers and long-term goals. - Vinod Khosla
Albert-László Barabási
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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
A look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. - Vinod Khosla
Donald N. Thompson
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The Checklist Manifesto
Very good; definitely worth reading. - Vinod Khosla
Atul Gawande
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Atomic Habits
A decent book on self-help tools, not a category I am generally a fan of. - Vinod Khosla
James Clear
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Eating the Big Fish
Brand building for entrepreneurs trying to upset the incumbents. - Vinod Khosla
Adam Morgan
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The Peacemaker's Code
Based on [the author's] class at HBS, War & Peace & lessons on leadership, negotiation, strategy & the human condition. - Vinod Khosla
Deepak Malhotra
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Behave
Among the best insights into our brain and behavior. - Vinod Khosla
Robert M. Sapolsky
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The Jungle Grows Back
A powerful, urgent essay into why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response. - Vinod Khosla
Robert Kagan
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Troublemakers
Tells the story of the world I have always lived, loved and believed in, despite the recent techlash. - Vinod Khosla
Leslie Berlin
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The Seventh Sense
I like the author but wish there were more causality/details. - Vinod Khosla
Joshua Cooper Ramo
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Why We Sleep
Best book on the subject [of sleep]. - Vinod Khosla
Matthew Walker
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Drunk Tank Pink
Fun read about our biases and how our brain functions. - Vinod Khosla
Adam Alter
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The Master Algorithm
If you want speculation about what the master AI might need (one view). - Vinod Khosla
Pedro Domingos
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Blitzscaling
An insightful book on how to scale at a very fast pace and more importantly WHEN. - Vinod Khosla
Reid Hoffman
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Great, very quick overview of astrophysics. - Vinod Khosla
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Inflamed Mind
Reveals the new breakthrough on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain. - Vinod Khosla
Edward Bullmore
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Lying
One of my favorite one hour reads about intellectual honesty. I wish more people were this honest! - Vinod Khosla
Sam Harris
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The Success Equation
Important investing, business, sports. - Vinod Khosla
Michael Mauboussin
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Other People's Money
Not very far from the truth on the financial services industry though the authors biases come through. - Vinod Khosla
Charles V. Bagli
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Against Empathy
A good case against too much empathy. - Vinod Khosla
Paul Bloom
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Long but worth every page. - Vinod Khosla
Daniel C. Dennett
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An Elegant Defense
Explains for the lay reader the intricate biology of our immune system. - Vinod Khosla
Matt Richtel
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The Uninhabitable Earth
A look into the future and how global warming will impact everything. - Vinod Khosla
David Wallace-Wells
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The Last Days of Night
I don’t read fiction, but this almost historical fiction is fun especially for Silicon Valley types. - Vinod Khosla
Graham Moore
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The Invisible Gorilla
Rigorously written (unlike many pysch books), fun, funny,surprising, enlightening. - Vinod Khosla
Christopher F. Chabris
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Only the Paranoid Survive
One of favorite books on entrepreneurship. - Vinod Khosla
Andrew S. Grove
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
Among the best books! A way of living, working & commitment to excellence. - Vinod Khosla
Bill Walsh
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Sapiens
A previous favorite. - Vinod Khosla
Yuval Noah Harari
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Antifragile
I recommend everybody read [this book] if they're setting off on a career as a personal philosophy. - Vinod Khosla
Nassim Taleb
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The Brand Flip
A very well done book on branding and new brand values. It will be the death of many incumbents. - Vinod Khosla
Marty Neumeier
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The Third Pillar
Provides a solid framework as to why things begin to deteriorate, and how society can successfully find their way back to a secure and stable plane. - Vinod Khosla
Raghuram Rajan
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Loonshots
A key to understanding why Silicon Valley culture is changing the world. - Vinod Khosla
Safi Bahcall
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Range
Discovers that in most fields , generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. [...] Every high school and college student should read it. - Vinod Khosla
David J. Epstein
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Friday Black
Reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in this country. - Vinod Khosla
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
One of my favorite books when I was a teenager! I still keep it around the house and periodically look at it. - Vinod Khosla
Richard Bach
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Lifespan
Reveals incredible scientific breakthroughs about aging and ways we can slow down, or even reverse, the process. - Vinod Khosla
David Sinclair
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Winners Take All
While today’s rich and powerful are fighting for equality and justice, [this book] argues that it is being done in a way that will preserve their position at the top of society. - Vinod Khosla
Anand Giridharadas
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Dives into the new problem on college campuses, Safetyism. - Vinod Khosla
Greg Lukianoff
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The Breakthrough
Guides readers through the scientific research transforming immunotherapy. - Vinod Khosla
Charles Graeber
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The Case Against Sugar
Not surprising but explicit description of the American psych on sugar and fat by the sugar industry. I would not have believed this much influence is possible. - Vinod Khosla
Gary Taubes
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Mindfulness in Plain English
Easy access to meditation. - Vinod Khosla
Henepola Gunaratana
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Homo Deus
Not that I agree with all of it, but it is still mind-bending speculation about our future. - Vinod Khosla
Yuval Noah Harari
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Skin in the Game
I like his ideas a lot, especially in Antifragile and the first half of this book. I've always complained about pundits relative to doers. - Vinod Khosla
Nassim Taleb
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McMafia
Fun though older book. - Vinod Khosla
Misha Glenny
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Life on the Edge
Each chapter illustrates one of life’s puzzles and makes you think differently about the world. - Vinod Khosla
Johnjoe McFadden
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Dives into the largest act of capitalist colonisation ever attempted - the colonisation of our minds, our behaviour, our free will, our very selves. - Vinod Khosla
Shoshana Zuboff
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
An important examination into today’s most pressing political, technological, social, and existential issues as we move into the unchartered territory of the future. - Vinod Khosla
Yuval Noah Harari
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Deep Learning
For a slightly more technical read [on AI]. - Vinod Khosla
Ian Goodfellow
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Negotiating the Impossible
I recommend to every entrepreneur, investor, & CEO - and anyone else who deals with difficult negotiations. - Vinod Khosla
Deepak Malhotra
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The Future of Capitalism
Outlines ethical ways of healing the deep new rifts that are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies. - Vinod Khosla
Paul Collier
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How to Change Your Mind
A fun exploration of psychedelic drugs, especially for someone who has never tried them. - Vinod Khosla
Michael Pollan
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The Line Becomes a River
Provides a different world view for those of us protected from some 'reality'. - Vinod Khosla
Francisco Cantú
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Scale
The physics behind biology, cities, economics and companies. - Vinod Khosla
Geoffrey West
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What You Do Is Who You Are
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. - Vinod Khosla
Ben Horowitz
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