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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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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We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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