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

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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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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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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.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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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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In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
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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.
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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