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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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