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" I love photography. I love rockets. "
Steve Jurvetson
Photography
I Love
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" History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow. "
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" Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect. "
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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "
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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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" Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit. "
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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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" In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe. "
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" Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. "
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" The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process. "
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" Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. "
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" Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. "
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" We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done. "
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" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "
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" Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation. "
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" One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. "
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" As a geek, I take umbrage at the notion that chips are not sexy. But yes, robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me. "
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" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "
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" I love what I do. I love to learn. "
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" I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of. "
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" Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete. "
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" Being slick is not the right answer. "
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" You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out. "
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" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "
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" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "
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" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "
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" While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction. "
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" The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. "
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" If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name. "
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