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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
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