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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
Businessman
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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Entrepreneurs
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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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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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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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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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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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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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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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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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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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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Future is not extrapolation of past
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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 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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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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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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