The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing. — Vinod Khosla Biofuels 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… — Vinod Khosla Business 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… — Vinod Khosla Assets 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… — Vinod Khosla Adapt 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… — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for. — Vinod Khosla Failing Copy Share Image
I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference. — Vinod Khosla Believe 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 Business 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… — Vinod Khosla Acquisition Copy Share Image
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting… — Vinod Khosla Accidents Copy Share Image
Germany has a lot of solar power. In fact, in 2005, some 55 or 57 percent of worldwide installations were photovoltaics in… — Vinod Khosla Electricity 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 Bottom Copy Share Image
One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under. — Vinod Khosla Always Copy Share Image
Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true. — Vinod Khosla Dare Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla Biological science Copy Share Image
You take something like RingCentral. It doesn't need any more money or financing: it is relatively mature, recurring revenue business - not… — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent… — Vinod Khosla Education Copy Share Image
When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring - remember, it was a very nascent market. And there was… — Vinod Khosla Doing things Copy Share Image
It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an… — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed. — Vinod Khosla Ifs Copy Share Image
