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
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.
want
You have to invent the future you want.
communication years sea
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.
dream causes degrees
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
opportunity strategy faster
I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
europe climate fallen
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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.
technology health-education way
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.