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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.

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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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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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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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 I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
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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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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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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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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'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.
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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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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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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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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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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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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