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Vinod Khosla
American
Businessman
Born:
Jan 28
,
1955
Believe
Change
Technology
Will
World
You
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I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.
Vinod Khosla
Vote
Believe
Startup
Small
Never
Anything
Board
Should
Company
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
You
Business
Disagree
Opportunities
Strategy
Faster
High
Take
Generally
Most
Because
Very
Lower
Grow
Why
Margin
We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.
Vinod Khosla
Risks
Will
Else
Say
Take
Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Ventures
Reasons
Technical
You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.
Vinod Khosla
Great
You
Technology
Generation
Great Things
Plant
Solar
Will
Power
Every
Local
Jobs
About
Power Plant
Know
Most
Renewable
Talking
Where
Them
Many
Using
Thermal
Things
Technologies
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
Vinod Khosla
Try
Care
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Something
Something New
Fail
New
Because
Afraid
Really
What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.
Vinod Khosla
Good
Great
You
World
Entrepreneur
Long
Build
Changes
Back
Market
Resources
Run
Long Run
Put
Does
Always
Brakes
Get
Prepared
World Changes
Adapt
We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.
Vinod Khosla
Love
Technology
Strong
Innovations
Market
Towards
Bias
Sort
Current
Large
Serious
Disruptive
Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for grid electricity.
Vinod Khosla
Good
Great
Technology
Fact
Invest
In Fact
Substitutes
Grid
Certain
Electricity
Applications
Technologies
Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed.
Vinod Khosla
You
Will
Willingness
Fail
Succeed
Your
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
Vinod Khosla
Time
Food
You
World
Will
Long
Long Time
Scale
Out
Able
Record
Only
Price
Take
Put
Dropping
Make
Forecasting
Get
Expensive
Oil
Fuel
Barrel
Now
Compete
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 great technology.
Vinod Khosla
Life
Great
Technology
Political
My Life
Enjoy
All My Life
Nerd
Part
Person
Loved
Mean
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
Vinod Khosla
Change
Recognizing
Implications
Well
Climate
Climate Change
Fallen
Behind
Europe
There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
Vinod Khosla
Work
Try
Will
Wind
Country
Big
Sense
Resource
Appropriate
Absolutely
Make
Parts
America
Where
Regions
Midwest
Certain
Should
Use
Technologies
Apply
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.
Vinod Khosla
World
Worth
Nothing
Collected
Collecting
Would
Net
New
Because
Diamonds
Lot
Measured
Companies
Company
Income
Assets
Set
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
Vinod Khosla
You
Remember
Matter
Big
Else
Valley
Those
Silicon
Silicon Valley
More
Failed
Failures
Than
Often
Anybody
Anybody Else
Successes
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Vinod Khosla
Success
Entrepreneur
Advice
Bad
Seeking
Rather
More
Tactical
Leads
Term
Than
Often
Probability
Short
Just
Short-Term
Decisions
Acquisition
View
Start
I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
Vinod Khosla
Change
Vote
Nation
Believe
Deficits
Risk
Hawk
Environment
Climate
Climate Change
Fiscal
Issue
Than
Bigger
Against
Taxes
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?
Vinod Khosla
Medicine
Trick
Ability
Could
Entrepreneurs
Simply
Like
Off
Going
Cannot
Fuel
Flexibility
Companies
Large
Company
Things
Pull
Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.
Vinod Khosla
Entrepreneur
Decision
Important
Advice
Single
Topic
Take
Most
Important Decision
Knowing
Make
Whose
First, you should take money and have plenty of money fueling your tank. But money becomes dangerous if you assume it's going to keep coming. Make sure you can get your burn rate to a sustainable level if you hit the brakes hard, within 90 days.
Vinod Khosla
You
Money
Dangerous
First
Assume
Plenty
Rate
Take
Days
Make
Sure
Within
Becomes
Coming
Tank
Brakes
Hit
Get
Going
Burn
Sustainable
Should
Your
Hard
Keep
Level
Entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from the right help and advice, and you can avoid costly mistakes. You can get incredible leverage in hiring people who wouldn't even talk to you if you have the right help. An investor isn't about money - it's about the help and advice you can get.
Vinod Khosla
You
People
Money
Advice
Mistakes
Incredible
Benefit
About
Costly
Entrepreneurs
Investor
Talk
Hiring
Lot
Get
Avoid
Help
Who
Even
Right
Leverage
When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring - remember, it was a very nascent market. And there was a lot that was unknown about the renewable marketplace in 2004, early 2003, when I was planning on it.
Vinod Khosla
Remember
Own
Unknown
Market
Marketplace
About
My Own
Renewable
Nascent
Doing
Lot
Very
Planning
Figuring
Things
Early
Started
My life is full of way more mistakes than successes.
Vinod Khosla
Life
My Life
Mistakes
Way
More
Than
Successes
Full
Germany has a lot of solar power. In fact, in 2005, some 55 or 57 percent of worldwide installations were photovoltaics in Germany. That's 57 percent of all worldwide solar photovoltaics. Because of the high feed-in tariff, they have a way of allowing you to produce electricity and ship it into the grid at very high prices.
Vinod Khosla
You
Solar
Power
Worldwide
Way
High
Some
Percent
Fact
Prices
Allowing
Because
Were
Lot
Ship
Very
Tariff
Germany
In Fact
Grid
Produce
Electricity
There's a big difference between needs and requirements for grid-based electricity versus those for distributed rural homes or remote locations, or even rooftop solar, where photovoltaics do OK. The more economical a technology is, the faster we'll see adoption.
Vinod Khosla
Needs
Technology
Solar
Big
Faster
Those
Locations
OK
Distributed
Rural
See
Adoption
More
Between
Economical
Remote
Big Difference
Versus
Difference
Where
Requirements
Electricity
Even
Homes
The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.
Vinod Khosla
Me
Failure
Matter
Probability
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