Vinod Khosla Quotes

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.