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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.

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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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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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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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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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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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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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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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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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Future is not extrapolation of past
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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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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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