He believes AI tutors could soon replace expensive private instructors, offering continuous, on-demand learning far beyond the scope of traditional schooling.
American billionaire and tech investor Vinod Khosla says college degrees are becoming obsolete, thanks to AI-driven education tools that outperform even the best human tutors.
In a sweeping conversation on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, Vinod Khosla laid out a bold vision: a future where artificial intelligence not only democratizes access to top-tier education but also upends traditional professions in law, medicine, and finance.
Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen nearly struck a deal to sell the company to OpenAI for $3 billion before it suddenly fell through.
Then, the two decamped to Google DeepMind, leaving the rest of the company scrambling. Windsurf’s remaining executives struck a deal with another AI startup, Cognition, the following weekend, which its new CEO, Jeff Wang, described as “crazy.”
Now, the legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has weighed in on the drama, criticizing the founders’ decision to leave.
Khosla was the first venture capital investor in OpenAI, and Khosla Ventures invested $50 million in the company in 2019, which The Information later reported gave him a 5% stake in the company at the time. Khosla Ventures is also an investor in Cognition.
“Windsurf and others are really bad examples of founders leaving their teams behind and not even sharing the proceeds with their team,” Khosla said in an X post. “I definitely would not work with their founders next time.”
Vinod Khosla’s remarks were in response to a clip from the “Twenty Minute VC” podcast featuring the Cognition founder Scott Wu, who said, “There’s an unspoken covenant that as a founder, you go down with the ship.”
“And I think that, for better or worse, it’s changed a bit over the last year, and I think it’s a bit disappointing to be honest,” Wu said.