Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khoslais an Indian/American businessman listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire. Khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he was the founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
optimistic technology electric-power
For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we're intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.
medicine entrepreneur generations
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
world metrics income
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.
believe important fiction
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
oil interesting house
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
safe ifs
If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
car body techie
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
average doctors disease
Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
school math doctors
If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
carbon-emissions gasoline coal
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
thinking imagination
Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
technology fuel disease
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
practice medicine lessons
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
world matter chance
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.