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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
Willingness
Fail
Succeed
Failing
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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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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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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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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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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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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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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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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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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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