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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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You have to invent the future you want.
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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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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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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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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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There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.
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I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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