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Vinod Khosla, MBA '80: 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.

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EPISODE INFO

Released: May 11, 2015
Duration: 54m
Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

“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. Read more #GSBvftt takeaways on Twitter: http://stanford.io/1PcRiFf Learn more about the annual Roanak Desai Memorial View From The Top talk: http://stanford.io/1KAXDJS

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Vinod Khosla
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Entrepreneur and venture capitalist; founder of Khosla Ventures and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, featuring Vinod Khosla, Vinod Khosla, MBA '80: Failure does not matter. Success matters. explores Khosla on conviction, failure, and betting big on impact Vinod Khosla argues that persistence and a willingness to fail are central to doing consequential things, because success—not failure—is what ultimately gets remembered.

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