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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
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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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Every big problem is a big 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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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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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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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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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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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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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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 generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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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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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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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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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.
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