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I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

Vinod Khosla

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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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It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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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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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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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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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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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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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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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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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