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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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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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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
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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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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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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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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to 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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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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