This Billion-Dollar Entrepreneur Is Shaping The Future Of Blockchains And Privacy With $81 Million Series A
Rajiv Khemani has now raised over $500M for his string of successful startups. Including building more than one billion dollar company from scratch, and achieving multiple exits.
Rajiv Khemani has now raised over $500M for his string of successful startups. Including building more than one billion dollar company from scratch, and achieving multiple exits.
On the Dealmakers Show, Khemani talked about his many exits, including billion dollar acquisitions and an IPO. Plus, building the future of tech infrastructure, investing in startups, and fundraising in the current environment.
Listen to the full podcast episode and review the transcript here.
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Rajiv Khemani was born in India. His father was a senior government official. Which meant that the family was often transferred to new places as he was growing up. From the base of the Himalayas to New Delhi, where he studied computer science in college.
Then he ended up pursuing his Master’s degree in New York City. With all of its people and activity, it’s a place he says actually shares many similarities with India.
Finishing his degree, he decided that he was much more interested in how to apply his learnings, than continuing down the road in academia to a Phd.
So, he packed up and moved all the way across the country to Silicon Valley to be in the mecca of technology.
There he started out working as a software engineer for Sun Microsystems. Which at the time he said was really working on the foundation of internet infrastructure. While there he became more interested in talking to customers, communicating the technology and value propositions, as well as sales and marketing.
However, before switching roles, he was told that he was too technical, and needed more of a business background. So, he applied to Stanford, where he went to do his MBA.
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MBA At Stanford
It was there, meeting entrepreneurs and VCs that he was really influenced to look into startups and entrepreneurship.
Before taking that leap he would return to Sun Microsystems in product management. Then a startup came calling and brought him in as one of the first 10 employees.
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