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You have to invent the future you want.
Vinod Khosla
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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
Invent
Future
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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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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
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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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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
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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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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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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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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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In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
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