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Vinod Khosla
Profession : Businessman
Birth : January 28, 1955
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There's a big difference between needs and requirements for grid-based electricity versus those for distributed rural homes or remote locations, or even rooftop solar, where photovoltaics do OK. The more economical a technology is, the faster we'll see adoption.
Vinod Khosla
The bulk of the utility industry today believes that coal and nuclear are the only solutions we have. Nuclear is greener but has the other issues. Coal, they think, can be transformed into the so-called clean coal technologies.
Vinod Khosla
Venture-capital firms invest in trends by projecting returns. But most projections are pretty much bogus, and research shows that experts are no better at predicting the future than dart-throwing monkeys.
Vinod Khosla
Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.
Vinod Khosla
I'm very excited by biomass and biofuels. We have a company, KiOR, that turns biomass - for instance, wood chips - into gasoline. The potential value of this company is huge. It could compete with regular crude oil without subsidies.
Vinod Khosla
The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.
Vinod Khosla
Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India.
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I challenge anybody to claim that clean tech done right is a disaster.
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I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.
Vinod Khosla
Hopefully, I can advise entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes. But you can never be sure if you're trying something new and unreasonable.
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I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.
Vinod Khosla
Nobody who comes in once every six weeks while you're working 80 or 90 hours a week is qualified to make a decision.
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People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.
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The combination of brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit should lead us to a safer and more secure future.
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One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under.
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New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.
Vinod Khosla
Did Google know much about media? Or Amazon about commerce? Tesla about cars? SpaceX about rockets? EBay about classifieds? What did I know about computing when I started Sun Microsystems? We should celebrate these entrepreneurs, not pillory them for fighting entrenched incumbent industries that have political influence and money.
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