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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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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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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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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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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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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
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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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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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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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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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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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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