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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.

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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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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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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 first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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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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