Keith Rabois has spent most of his 13-year career in venture capital associated with Khosla Ventures' longtime home in Menlo Park, California. But that's changing. Speaking Thursday night at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in New York's West Village, Rabois confirmed that Khosla Ventures is opening its first-ever office outside Sand Hill Road. The new outpost will be in New York, on 14th Street, and is expected to open this fall. The office will house a handful of Khosla investors, Rabois among them, but its more unusual feature is what he called an 'executive briefing center.' That will be a space where the firm will bring 10 or 12 portfolio companies at a time to meet with a Fortune 500 company, four days a week. 'The portfolio companies love this,' he told attendees. 'They get pilots and customers, and so it's going to be a very vibrant office because of that.' The announcement comes months after Rabois himself relocated to the East Coast, moving to be closer to his husband, Jacob...
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