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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

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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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
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