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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
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Extrapolation

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You have to invent the future you want.
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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'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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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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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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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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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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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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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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