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There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.

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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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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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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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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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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Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
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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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