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Every big problem is a big opportunity.

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
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Opportunity
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
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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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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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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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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
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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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