Call him a visionary for his role co-founding Sun Microsystems Inc. Call him a rainmaker for his prescient investments in companies like Juniper Networks while at Kleiner Perkins. Call him a pioneer for his early commitment to clean technology at his firm Khosla Ventures.
You can call billionaire Vinod Khosla many things. Just don’t call him a venture capitalist.
“I object to being called a venture capitalist,” the storied investor told the audience on the second day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. “I’m a venture assistant. I don’t very much like the venture profession.”
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