Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Vinod Khosla
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
Larger
Add
Negative
Value
Advising
Percent
Substantially
Maybe
Percentage
Values
Percentages
Would
Zero
More quotes by Vinod Khosla
The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
Vinod Khosla
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
Vinod Khosla
No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
Vinod Khosla
The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
Vinod Khosla
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
Vinod Khosla
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
Vinod Khosla
Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
Vinod Khosla
Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
Vinod Khosla
I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
Vinod Khosla
We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.
Vinod Khosla
My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
Vinod Khosla
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
Vinod Khosla
In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
Vinod Khosla
I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
Vinod Khosla
I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
Vinod Khosla
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
Vinod Khosla