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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

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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Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
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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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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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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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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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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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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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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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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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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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Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.
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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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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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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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