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
impact perfect enemy
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.
jobs apples entrepreneur
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.
dream trying enough
Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
dream entrepreneur trying
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
opportunity problem bigger
Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
doctors machines algorithms
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,
data medicine years
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
giving succeed failing
My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
play keys risk
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.
believe differences making-a-difference
I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
real technology goal
Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.
mean winter thinking
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.
country technology wind
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.
believe carries change changes climate everybody gucci hybrids loves material radical selling till track
I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement.