“Entrepreneurs have tremendous power to change things,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures. “Much of that change is enabled through technology, but it takes a bulldog entrepreneur to make it happen.”
Speaking at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California, Khosla discussed the current state of health innovation, and made bold predictions about its future. A successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, Khosla shared his unique perspective on several topics, including the gradual digitization of healthcare, and the need for more outsiders in the industry.
“To build something truly exceptional, you can’t build a company based on norms that are already established,” he explained. “No large innovation has come from within a system. Tesla didn’t come out of the automotive industry. SpaceX didn’t come out of Boeing or Lockheed.”
At StartUp Health’s Moonshot Academy, we’re training hundreds of entrepreneurs from a multitude of industries to become Health Transformers, startup founders capable of improving the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world. We’re also building a global ecosystem of tens of thousands of partners and investors who understand how to work with entrepreneurs.
“Entrepreneurship is a hard business,” Khosla admitted. “Entrepreneurs need advice, help, hand holding, bantering, brainstorming, and arguing. The best ventures come out of that.”
In this week’s episode of StartUp Health NOW, Khosla speaks with Steve Krein, CEO of StartUp Health, about how entrepreneurs will transform health and wellness, while offering insight into how venture capitalists think about health innovation.
“I’m interested in one particular thing, one style of innovation that’s radical, large, and significant, and doesn’t fit into today’s practice,” he said. “I’d rather not make a clinic more efficient. I’d rather start a new one that has a radical set of assumptions behind it.”
Date:April 18, 2017