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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

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
Failing
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Entrepreneurs
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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
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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 you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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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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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.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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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.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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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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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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There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.
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If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
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The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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