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70 years old.
He checks all the liberal boxes so he won’t get any pushback from the cancel crowd.

Sounds like an interesting guy. I don't know how liberal he is, Indians can be conservative. Deal is its going to be the son running things, he's the one moving to Seattle. This is daddy buying it for him. I had been leaning a little to the other bidder. They had an established record running a sports franchise, the Celtics, and i believe a succesful one. These guys seem more a wildcard

In 2026, Khosla was ranked number 10 in the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators. The same year, he also ranked 14th on Forbes' inaugural "250: America's Most Successful Living Immigrants" list. Khosla was #1 on the 2026 Forbes Midas List and on the inaugural list in 2001. In 2001, Red Herring called him “The No. 1 VC on the Planet”, noting Khosla helped to create 40 companies that produced $150 billion USD of market value from 1976-2001.

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:07 am

Sounds like an interesting guy. I don't know how liberal he is, Indians can be conservative. Deal is its going to be the son running things, he's the one moving to Seattle. This is daddy buying it for him. I had been leaning a little to the other bidder. They had an established record running a sports franchise, the Celtics, and i believe a succesful one. These guys seem more a wildcard

In 2026, Khosla was ranked number 10 in the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators. The same year, he also ranked 14th on Forbes' inaugural "250: America's Most Successful Living Immigrants" list. Khosla was #1 on the 2026 Forbes Midas List and on the inaugural list in 2001. In 2001, Red Herring called him “The No. 1 VC on the Planet”, noting Khosla helped to create 40 companies that produced $150 billion USD of market value from 1976-2001.

Jaypal and Sawant are Indian, how conservative are they?

Allen paid, what, $200 mil? And the appreciation in the last few years.

The last NFL franchise to go up for sale was the Washington Commanders, which a group led by Josh Harris purchased for $6.05 billion in 2023. Before that, the Walton-Penner family bought the Denver Broncos for $4.65 billion in 2022. The record price paid for any American sports franchise is $10 billion, set when Mark Walter agreed to purchase majority ownership in the Los Angeles Lakers from the Buss family in 2025.

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Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:20 am

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:07 am

Sounds like an interesting guy. I don't know how liberal he is, Indians can be conservative. Deal is its going to be the son running things, he's the one moving to Seattle. This is daddy buying it for him. I had been leaning a little to the other bidder. They had an established record running a sports franchise, the Celtics, and i believe a succesful one. These guys seem more a wildcard

In 2026, Khosla was ranked number 10 in the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators. The same year, he also ranked 14th on Forbes' inaugural "250: America's Most Successful Living Immigrants" list. Khosla was #1 on the 2026 Forbes Midas List and on the inaugural list in 2001. In 2001, Red Herring called him “The No. 1 VC on the Planet”, noting Khosla helped to create 40 companies that produced $150 billion USD of market value from 1976-2001.

Jaypal and Sawant are Indian, how conservative are they?

How about Vivek Ramaswamy? An Indian tech entrepreneur can in fact be conservative. And in my mind if we are talking culture, India is a pretty conservative place

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:07 am

Sounds like an interesting guy. I don't know how liberal he is,

I just assumed everyone had already read his wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla

Khosla hosted Barack Obama for a fundraising dinner in 2013,[71] and Joe Biden in 2024 at his home in Portola Valley.[72] Khosla endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[73]

Khosla was a major proponent of the "Yes on 87" campaign to pass California's Proposition 87, The Clean Energy Initiative, which failed to pass in November 2006.[74]

With the withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election, Khosla called for the Democratic Party to hold an open convention for its nominee. He stated that it was "hard for me to support someone with no values, lies, cheats, rapes, demeans women, hates immigrants like me" in social media exchanges after Musk referenced supporting Donald Trump.[75][76] Khosla pledged his support for Kamala Harris in July 2024 and joined "VCs for Kamala", a group of more than 100 tech investors and entrepreneurs signatories for Harris.[77]

Irresponsible rhetoric for such a "bright" person. He must really hate America to have thrown his support behind Harris. I'm guessing he also is a fan of Mayor Mamdhani and the Iatollah.

Does anyone seriously think having this woke guy as the owner is a good thing?

Wow, this guy is off the charts.