I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything. Vinod Khosla More Quotes by Vinod Khosla More Quotes From Vinod Khosla 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. Vinod Khosla biofuelspurposeideas There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change. Vinod Khosla doubthouseyears Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change. Vinod Khosla technologyrealgoal The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing. Vinod Khosla biofuelswrong-thingsworld I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference. Vinod Khosla making-a-differencedifferencesbelieve We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil. Vinod Khosla oilhalfneeds I'm very excited by biomass and biofuels. We have a company, KiOR, that turns biomass - for instance, wood chips - into gasoline. The potential value of this company is huge. It could compete with regular crude oil without subsidies. Vinod Khosla woodpotentialvaluecompany I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times. Vinod Khosla throughknowtough-timestough Did Google know much about media? Or Amazon about commerce? Tesla about cars? SpaceX about rockets? EBay about classifieds? What did I know about computing when I started Sun Microsystems? We should celebrate these entrepreneurs, not pillory them for fighting entrenched incumbent industries that have political influence and money. Vinod Khosla celebratemoneyfightingsun 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 nobodyriskssaywill 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 greatyoutechnologypower 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 greatgoodyoulong 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 technologyseriousstronglove 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 greatgoodelectricitytechnology Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed. Vinod Khosla yourwillyousucceed 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. Vinod Khosla needlosswintercountry 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. Vinod Khosla youclimate-changefashionchange If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive. Vinod Khosla limitcappictureyou
