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Meet the Khoslas, the Bay Area family behind a bid to buy the Seattle Seahawks 20%
By Kim Malcolm40% John O'Brien36%
7/14/2026, 12:22:34 AM
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Over the weekend, news broke that the Seattle Seahawks may have new owners.
The NFL team was previously purchased in 1997 by Microsoft co-founded Paul Allen for $194 million.
KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to The Seattle Times’ sports reporter Bob Condotta to learn more about the new owners and the eye-popping price they will pay for the team that just won the Super Bowl in February.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
Kim Malcolm: Start us off with the buyers.
Who are they?
Bob Condotta: It's the Khosla family, father Vinod, wife Neeru, and son Neal.
They have lived in the Bay Area since Vinod and Neeru emigrated from India in the late '70s, early '80s.
Vinod, through a variety of different things, venture capital being one of them, became one of the richer men in the United States.
His son, Neal, also has started some of his own businesses.
They were longtime fans of the [San Francisco] 49ers, and that's what sort of got them interested in the NFL.
Were they on the short list of who was expected to bid?
Not initially.
Nobody really knew who they were, from a general NFL standpoint, heading into it.
But they became on the short list very quickly.
Sounds like they were one of the top two [prospects] for the last few months.
I think from the start, they were known as one of the groups that was very interested and had the wherewithal as well to pull it off.
My understanding is they’ll be the controlling owners of the new ownership group.
Do we know who else is going to be involved with that?
We do not.
Although there are hints that it's a number of other people who are Silicon Valley tech guys, no specific names have been released yet.
Let's talk about the price tag, about $9.6 billion.
It's hard to even believe that's a real figure.
What should listeners know about the size of that offer?
Yeah, it is a lot.
Just three years ago, the Washington Commanders [in Washington, D.C.] sold for $6.05 billion, which seemed crazy.
But this is the going rate these days for NFL teams.
If you read Forbes magazine, they do an annual valuations list.
I think they had the Dallas Cowboys last year as the most valued NFL team at $13 billion.
So, this was kind of what was expected.
Well, we know the Khosla family is from the Bay Area, and they have this connection with the San Francisco 49ers.
I understand they've been season ticket holders there for a long time and purchased a minority stake a little while ago.
For fans listening to this, I can only imagine all the suspicion: “What?
Someone from our rivals getting involved with the Seahawks?”
What's going on here?
Well, this is actually becoming a really common thing.
This isn't the old days anymore, like when George Halas started the Chicago Bears 100 years ago.
These are very, very expensive teams.
You have to have a lot of money to get into the club.
This has happened fairly frequently lately in sports teams where people buy into one team somewhere to sort of get into the club.
They get known.
They understand what it's like, then once they get that taste of it, they go, "I want a team of my own."
Yes, these guys were fans of the 49ers, but that's nothing to really worry about in terms of buying the Seahawks.
What it shows is they like football, and they're fans of the NFL.
They know a little bit about the NFL, and the NFL knows them.
That's far more important.
Tell us a little bit about what happens in the next few weeks.
The sale has to be approved, right?
Yes.
It’ll get sent to what's called the NFL Finance Committee, which is a committee of eight other owners, chaired by Clark Hunt, who owns the Kansas City Chiefs.
They will look at it, then send it on to the general ownership with a recommendation of either “yes” or “no.”
Generally, once that happens, it's a complete rubber stamp.
The last two ownership changes were unanimous votes that, apparently, took very little time at all once it got through that stage.
August 26 is the date owners were told to be prepared to have a meeting to approve the sale of the Seahawks.
One reason why people don't think this will hit much of a bump in the road is the family was approved for that share of the 49ers just last year, so they've gone through that process already.
The NFL knows who these guys are.
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