Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khoslais an Indian/American businessman listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire. Khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he was the founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
oil long records
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
ideas biofuels corn
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.
data doctors needs
Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
mistake way rooms
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.
matter valleys remember
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.
opportunity problem bigs
Every big problem is a big opportunity.
scratches healthcare ifs
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
needs climate groups
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
screw-ups use investment
Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
ecosystems ideas giving
It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
dream causes degrees
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
zero negative add
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.
entrepreneur failing knows
Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
trying care failing
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.