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Future is not extrapolation of past

Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
Extrapolation
Future
Past

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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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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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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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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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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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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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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
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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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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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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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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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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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