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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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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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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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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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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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'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.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
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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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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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Future is not extrapolation of past
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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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How would you compete against yourself?
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