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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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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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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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There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
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You have to invent the future you want.
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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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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
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Screw up often but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
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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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It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
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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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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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