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" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "

Steve Jurvetson

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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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" Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.' "

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" I can't invest in areas of comfort. "

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" The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. "

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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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" 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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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

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" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "

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" Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while staying in lunar orbit. "

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" The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a self-fulfilling prophecy or if it's something about the nature of those businesses. "

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" You have to build businesses for longer term. "

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" We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat. "

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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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" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "

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" I've actually come to respect the most irritatingly challenging people I've worked with as really valuable in improving group decision-making and what to do and what to invest in. "

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" By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries. "

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" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

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" One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors? "

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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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" The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art. "

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" We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done. "

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