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.

— Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla Quotes

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

— Vinod Khosla

Every big problem is a big opportunity.

— Vinod Khosla

Problem-Solving

If you’re going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.

— Vinod Khosla

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.

— Vinod Khosla

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.

— Vinod Khosla

You have to invent the future you want.

— Vinod Khosla

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

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

— Vinod Khosla

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

— Vinod Khosla

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

— Vinod Khosla

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don’t know they don’t know.

— Vinod Khosla

Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

— Vinod Khosla

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it’s a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

— Vinod Khosla

Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.

— Vinod Khosla

No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

— Vinod Khosla

I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

— Vinod Khosla

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they’re the uneconomic thing.

— Vinod Khosla

We don’t need a fuel that’s cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

— Vinod Khosla

There’s no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.

— Vinod Khosla

As for companies invested in the space – I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology – you can have the first without the second, even in the “clean tech” space.

— Vinod Khosla

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