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" By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month. "
Steve Jurvetson
Realize
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" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "
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" There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience. "
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" You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out. "
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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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" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "
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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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" 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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" If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round. "
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" The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. "
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" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "
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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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" By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. "
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" Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge. "
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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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Everyone
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Sense
" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "
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Cost
More
People
" If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest. "
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" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "
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" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "
Steve Jurvetson
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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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Best
Time
History
" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "
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House
Student
Over
" When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed. "
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Internet
Space
" 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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" The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "
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Apples
" Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets. "
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" There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. "
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" Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. "
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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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People
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" I love what I do. I love to learn. "
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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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Improving
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