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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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You have to invent the future you want.
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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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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
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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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I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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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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