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
Vinod Khosla quotes about
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.
dream trying enough
Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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.
carbon-emissions gasoline coal
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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?
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.
scratches healthcare ifs
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.
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.
entrepreneur failing knows
Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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.