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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

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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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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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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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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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 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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.
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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
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I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
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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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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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