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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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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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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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You have to invent the future you want.
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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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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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For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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