“About 25 companies a year drop out of the Fortune 500 list — a pace that will at least "triple or quadruple by 2035". It'll be a very fast extinction rate for Fortune 500 companies, and that's a macroeconomic trend not even remotely talked about.”
Founder, Khosla Ventures; co-founder of Sun Microsystems; early OpenAI investor
Said Sep 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2035Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Stanford University, September 16-18, 2025 (report published October 3, 2025)
Resolvable against Fortune 500 list turnover through 2035; Khosla repeated the same forecast at TechCrunch Disrupt in October 2025.