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Did Google know much about media? Or Amazon about commerce? Tesla about cars? SpaceX about rockets? EBay about classifieds? What did I know about computing when I started Sun Microsystems? We should celebrate these entrepreneurs, not pillory them for fighting entrenched incumbent industries that have political influence and money. - Vinod Khosla
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New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society. - Vinod Khosla
#Innovation
#Matter
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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. - Vinod Khosla
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#Nothing
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Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make. - Vinod Khosla
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#Important
#Knowing
I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times. - Vinod Khosla
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#Tough
Nobody who comes in once every six weeks while you're working 80 or 90 hours a week is qualified to make a decision. - Vinod Khosla
#Decision
#Every
#Nobody
#Week
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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. - Vinod Khosla
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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. - Vinod Khosla
#Confidence
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#Persistence
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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves. - Vinod Khosla
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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new. - Vinod Khosla
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I'm very excited by biomass and biofuels. We have a company, KiOR, that turns biomass - for instance, wood chips - into gasoline. The potential value of this company is huge. It could compete with regular crude oil without subsidies. - Vinod Khosla
#Company
#Excited
#Oil
#Value
#Wood
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes. - Vinod Khosla
#Big
#Matter
#More
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#Valley
Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed. - Vinod Khosla
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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way. - Vinod Khosla
#Education
#Energy
#Health
#Technology
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. - Vinod Khosla
#Believe
#Religion
#Science
#Technology
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. - Vinod Khosla
#Carbon
#Electric Cars
#Emissions
#Worse
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