I challenge anybody to claim that clean tech done right is a disaster. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms, — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between needs and requirements for grid-based electricity versus those for distributed rural homes or remote locations, or even… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
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,… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
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… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can.… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
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… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Hopefully, I can advise entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes. But you can never be sure if you're trying something new and unreasonable. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
