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- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
- Electric Cars
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Companies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who cares if companies are overvalued or not?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You take something like RingCentral. It doesn't need any more money or financing: it is relatively mature, recurring revenue business - not really worried - but you know, we could sell it tomorrow. We have not been in a rush to sell it. We don't care about exits as much. We care about building fundamental value.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fallow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020