I want to invest in things where I can be most wrong, because that's where the upside is most asymmetric.

investingKhosla Ventures talk, 2013

The areas where failure is most likely are also the areas where success would be most important.

riskStanford GSB interview, 2015

I believe we can replace 80% of what doctors do with AI. That's not a put-down of doctors — that's the scale of the opportunity.

healthcareTEDMED talk, 2012

Venture capital should be about funding things that can't get funded any other way. The moment you only fund safe things, you've stopped doing venture capital.

venture-capitalIs Venture Capital Broken? essay, 2013

People ask why I keep investing in clean energy after the failures. The answer is: the problem didn't go away. The technology just needs more time and more capital.

clean-energyBloomberg interview, 2016

Failure is a feature of doing important things, not a bug. If you're not failing a lot, you're not trying hard enough.

failureAspen Ideas Festival, 2018
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