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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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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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