I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times. — Vinod Khosla Customer Copy Share Image
Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know. — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch. — Vinod Khosla Healthcare Copy Share Image
Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change. — Vinod Khosla Body 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 Algorithms 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 Doctor Copy Share Image
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty. — Vinod Khosla Capitalism 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
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially… — 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
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
In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created… — Vinod Khosla Ability 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 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 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
Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic… — Vinod Khosla Climate 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
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
If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine. — Vinod Khosla 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask. — 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 Biofuels Copy Share Image
We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures. — 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
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school. — Vinod Khosla Doctors 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
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true. — Vinod Khosla Business Copy Share Image
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market. — Vinod Khosla Climate Copy Share Image
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed. — 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
I challenge anybody to claim that clean tech done right is a disaster. — Vinod Khosla Challenge Copy Share Image
