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
data medicine years
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
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.
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.
dream trying enough
Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
practice medicine lessons
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
data best-things knows
One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
persistence views ebay
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.
technology fuel disease
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
world matter chance
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.
carbon-emissions gasoline coal
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
safe ifs
If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
world metrics income
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
oil interesting house
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
medicine entrepreneur generations
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?