Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter, Success matters (video)

Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters:

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try,” emphasized Vinod Khosla (MBA '80) during the Roanak Desai Memorial View From The Top talk on May 1, 2015. Khosla, the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, also discussed the importance of having a belief system and the "indulgence" of brutal honesty. Published May 11, 2015

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Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter, Success matters (video)

Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters. - “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try,” emphasized Vinod Khosla (MBA '80) during the Roanak Desai Memorial View From The Top talk on May 1, 2015. Khosla, the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, also discussed the importance of having a belief system and the "indulgence" of brutal honesty. Originally published on May 11, 2015.

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Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla (video)

Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla

Video above -- Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla

At the annual KV CEO Summit, both Larry Page and Sergey Brin sat down to discuss a wide range of topics including why computers today are still pretty bad, their partnership over the last 16 years, the future of Google, government 2.0 and how machine learning and technology will shape our future of abundance.

The full transcript is here

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Vinod Khosla Says Most VCs Add Negative Value To Startups

An unspoken (until now) truth:

Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups | TechCrunch: " . . .“I would be offending too many people,” Khosla retorted. “Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.”. . . ." (read more at link above)

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