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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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Fiction
Building
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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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Future is not extrapolation of past
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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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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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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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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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
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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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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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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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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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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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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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