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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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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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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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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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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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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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