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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
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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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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By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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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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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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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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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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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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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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