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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
Every
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Bigs
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
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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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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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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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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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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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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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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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