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...opportunity and an obligation to do something remarkable to save the planet," Clinton told the crowd of 5,000. "You are dangerously dependent on unstable sources of oil, and your air is too polluted." Silicon Valley bigwigs, including Google founder Larry Page and venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla - wagering that clean tech will be the next bonanza - have also ponied up several million in favor of the initiative...
...most fundamental level of demand creation," says Vinod Khosla, a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins. "Optical-networking companies are like Levi's. They're supplying jeans and tools to miners during the Gold Rush." The amount of data traversing the Web is doubling every three months, and as these merged-media entities offer fatter and better Web services, bandwidth demand should accelerate again...
...AnnaLee Saxenian, an associate professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, about one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian ceos. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million. The number of Indian American New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, is worth between $4 billion...
...Hong Kingston (China Men); Sonny Mehta, editor of the distinguished Knopf book- publishing house; and filmmaker Wayne Wang (Dim Sum). Consider also: Chang- Lin Tien, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; Paul Terasaki, a UCLA professor of surgery who developed tissue typing for organ transplants; and Vinod Khosla, one of the founding partners of the computer- workstation manufacturer Sun Microsystems...
...willingness to tackle what must be done helps sustain most newcomers. Sun Microsystems' Khosla, 38, an Indian engineer with an M.B.A., worked through holidays and vacations for two years to build up his company, which sold $4.3 billion worth of computer workstations last year. Quasi-retired as a multimillionaire for eight years now, he remarks, "Growing up in India made your expectations of reward much lower. So, you are prepared to work harder and make more sacrifices...