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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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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
Vinod Khosla
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Vinod Khosla
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
Vinod Khosla
The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Vinod Khosla
In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
Vinod Khosla
No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
Vinod Khosla
The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
Vinod Khosla
Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
Vinod Khosla
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
Vinod Khosla
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
Screw up often but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla
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.
Vinod Khosla