Vinod Khosla lands at Teterboro the week of his OpenAI payout ruling

Vinod Khosla flew from Phillips Army Air Field in Maryland to Teterboro Airport on June 5, a 37-minute hop aboard his Gulfstream V (N85NV). The departure point, an Army post just outside Baltimore, is not a usual base for Khosla, whose home airport is San Jose International.

The trip arrives the same week a federal jury in Oakland ruled that Elon Musk filed his OpenAI lawsuit too late, per a KQED report on June 1. Khosla Ventures was OpenAI’s first VC investor, putting $50 million into its for-profit arm in 2019. The verdict removes a cloud of litigation around the company Khosla helped bankroll — a good week for a personal visit to the New York area, where Khosla maintains business ties.

The flight follows a busy stretch for N85NV: San Jose to southern California loops earlier in May, then a cross-country leg from Hayward to Augusta, Georgia, on May 12, and Augusta to Teterboro on May 14. The pattern suggests meetings across tech and venture networks. This week, the boardroom scorecard reads better than it did for Musk. [sfexaminer.com](https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/business/martins-beach-battle-delayed-again-for-settlement-talks/article_fdf9b814-e516-4ab8-ab7e-fe8b9b31f6c5.html) notes Khosla is still fighting the Martins Beach access case, but in New York this week, the news was all about his winning bet.