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

investing— Khosla Ventures talk, 2013
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The areas where failure is most likely are also the areas where success would be most important.

risk— Stanford GSB interview, 2015
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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.

healthcare— TEDMED talk, 2012
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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-capital— Is Venture Capital Broken? essay, 2013
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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-energy— Bloomberg interview, 2016
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Failure is a feature of doing important things, not a bug. If you're not failing a lot, you're not trying hard enough.

failure— Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018