Vinod Khosla Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.”
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“Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.”
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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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“An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.”
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“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.”
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“Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?”
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“Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.”
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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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“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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“The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.”
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“The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.”
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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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“Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.”
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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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“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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“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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“Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.”
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“Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.”
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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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“Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors”
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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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“Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.”
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“If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.”
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“My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.”
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“Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.”
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“How would you compete against yourself?”
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“Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.”
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“You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.”
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