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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
Businessman
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
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I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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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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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
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Screw up often but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
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Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.
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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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It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
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Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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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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