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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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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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