# Ryan Batra

> Ryan Batra is the VP, Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most influential deep-tech venture firms. A career talent architect with over a decade in hypergrowth tech, he spent six years building DoorDash's technical and executive recruiting machine through multiple phases of explosive expansion, then led recruiting at Lime and OpenStore before landing at Khosla. Now he helps founders across KV's portfolio - spanning AI, biotech, space, and climate - hire the engineers, researchers, and leaders who make bold ideas real. He's placed 500+ engineers and leaders. His philosophy: talent is one of the most powerful forms of leverage a founder has.

- **Role:** VP, Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures
- **Organizations:** Khosla Ventures, DoorDash, Lime, OpenStore
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Communication and Media Studies, Old Dominion University
- **Known for:** Recruited 500+ engineers, researchers, and leaders across career, Led technical and executive recruiting at DoorDash through multiple hypergrowth phases over six years, Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at multiple high-growth startups including Lime and OpenStore

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Built and scaled recruiting functions at Lime (electric scooter/micromobility company)
- **early career** — Led recruiting at OpenStore, an e-commerce startup
- **~2019-2025** — Joined DoorDash; spent six years leading technical and executive recruiting through multiple phases of hypergrowth
- **October 2025** — Resigned from DoorDash
- **Late 2025** — Joined Khosla Ventures as VP, Talent Partner
- **December 2025** — DoorDash filed lawsuit alleging misappropriation of confidential recruiting data

## Achievements

- Recruited 500+ engineers, researchers, and leaders across career
- Led technical and executive recruiting at DoorDash through multiple hypergrowth phases over six years
- Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at multiple high-growth startups including Lime and OpenStore
- Joined Khosla Ventures - one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious VC firms - as VP, Talent Partner
- Developing talent network serving Khosla's diverse portfolio spanning AI, biotech, space, climate, and fintech

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — DoorDash filed lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleging Ryan Batra misappropriated 1,500+ confidential files about AI recruiting candidates and compensation before leaving to join Khosla Ventures
- **2025-10** — Joined Khosla Ventures as VP, Talent Partner after six years at DoorDash
- **2025-12** — Appeared on or was linked to a YouTube episode: 'How Startups Can Still Hire Elite AI Talent (Even vs Meta & Google)'

## Links

- Website: https://ryanbatra.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanbatra/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RyanBatra
- GitHub: https://github.com/ryanbatra
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rpbatra/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.batra.7

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Last updated: 2026-05-08