Vinod Khosla

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Uncapped with Jack Altman · Uncapped #15 | Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures · 1 Jul 2025 podcast

Uh, the team wanted to sell.

I only asked they give me two hours with the whole team to make a uh and I did over the weekend the presentation I gave to them on why they should not sell.

But before the that presentation, as long as I had the two hours, yeah, uh, I signed the papers and said, You have my vote anyway.

Yeah, you can.

I love that.

So I will always give the final say to the management team.

But I do want to debate it.

And I think every strong founder loves feedback that challenges them.

And it's the only thing really valuable to a strong founder.

Great founders love that.

Not so great founders are so uncertain of themselves they don't like that.

And they are I prefer to teach them how to be a great founder.

But almost every strong founder.

different kind of

And I said earlier we are not in I've not called myself an investor ever.

Right.

I always say I'm a venture assistant.

If you look at our website,

Since we started the firm in 2004, the first tagline is venture assistance.

By the way, another phrase that has stayed on our website since 2004 is I prefer brut uh brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness.

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