Steve Jurvetson
Businessman
1967-03-01
Quotes by Steve Jurvetson
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Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
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I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.
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Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.
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Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.
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There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.
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If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.
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Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can think about building products in a very different way. You can think about interfacing to biology in a very different way.
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Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel?
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In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.
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Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.
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I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.
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When the venture capital industry invests, it's usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company.
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Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.
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