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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
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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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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.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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.
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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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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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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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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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