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.
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.
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.
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?
optimistic technology electric-power
For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we're intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.
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.
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.