joining me today on "bloomberg studio 1.0," khosla ventures founder vinod khosla.inod, thank you so much for being here. it is really great to have you. vinod: great to be here. emily: you are known for being an investor who not only challenges conventional wisdom, you explode it. how early did that start? vinod: you know, one of the privileges and the indulgences you get if you are successful early, and loo what comes a comes a lot in success, is the ability to do things others may not have the freedom to do. so i used it to my advantage very early. i was always interested in radical change, big ideas. and i got the opportunity to do that. emily: so you were raised in delhi, india. what might we find a young vinod doing? vinod: you know, i did not find have anybody around me interested in either business or technology. i grew up in an army household. i read a story about a hungarian immigrant coming to this country to start a company. i was 15. and the technologies, which was intel, sounded very cool. i fell in love with the idea and have stayed with the idea sinc

caroline: that was vinod khosla andder of khosla ventures founder of rubric.oston, massachusetts to a company that sees the future of factories growing from a. more on that story next. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: ginkgo bioworks is that the forefront of bringing biology technology. based in boston, the start of his building tools for a future where factories are powered by biology. the company is helping clients design flavors and fragrances by modifying the dna of microbes like east. .- yeast we got a behind-the-scenes look at the company. >> a team of phd's from m.i.t. started ginkgo bioworks in boston a few miles away. inside they are building tools for a future where factories stop manufacturing goods and start growing them. of biology ist digital code in the form of dna. we have out the ability to read that code through dna sequencing and the ability to write that code with dna synthesis. if we can read and write code, we can program. can you program biology to make stuff? .es, because dna is code >> before they can grow their own iphones, ginkgo is fo

vinod khosla grew up in delhi, india, son of an officer in the indian army. his parents agreed he could explore his boyhood curiosities with no limits, as long as his grades didn't suffer. he went on to start sun microsystems and then became a venture capitalist. he helps epr

caroline: and that was the founder of khosla ventures, and the cofounder of rubrik. the revised travel ban is facing pushback. we have a massachusetts attorney general leading the charge. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ caroline: we are back to our conversation on the travel ban. the massachusetts attorney general standing behind hawaii's attorney general, who was in court. we just learned the judge and court has reserved his ruling, but is waiting to issue the order before the ban is imposed at midnight. joining us from boston is maura healey, thank you for giving your time today. first of all, as it stands in its second iteration, why is the new executive order still defected? maura: it is still discriminatory, it is a muslim ban. and more than being unconstitutional, what this also is is something that is causing a tremendous amount of uncertainty and creating real harm for businesses, research institutions, colleges and universities, and for major tech companies across the land. that is one of the reasons why when we filed suit and we renewed our lawsuit ear

earlier we spoke with the khosla ventures and the ceo of rubrik.ine up for lyft. >> what we are seeing is the high-quality company is with a real business model and sustainability, with a long-term sustainability, those are going public. not every public -- not every company is going public, so the bar is high, but we have a number of companies that have and aigh quality revenue, product getting into the market place. >> when you have your viewpoint on the chief executive of rubri k, you look at these companies following snap, is it time for rubrik to look at those public markets? >> we are probably two years away, but we are building a company to become a public company and long-term sustainable business. i think the fundamentals of enterprise business and selling into larger parts or the larger end of the market, and deriving seven figures, or eight figure deals, that is more than the -- that is what drives the enterprise business. we are focused on fortune 500 companies where they have a real need around cloud and around management, data securit