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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
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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 world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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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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Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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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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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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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 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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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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