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" Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation. "
Steve Jurvetson
Earth
Agriculture
Space
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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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" 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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" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "
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" I taught myself HTML. "
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" There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley. "
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" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "
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Invest
Only
Labor
" 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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" Go to the moon - that's my dream. "
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Moon
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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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" In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves. "
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Chemicals
Synthetic
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" If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals. "
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You
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Like
" 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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" The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "
Steve Jurvetson
Programming
Short
Apples
" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "
Steve Jurvetson
Going
Autonomous
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" When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British. "
Steve Jurvetson
Gamers
Better
Lord
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Unique
Surface
Opportunity
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Nature
Bad
Youth
" Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. "
Steve Jurvetson
Houses
Big
Corporate
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Rest
Control
Mindset
" I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before we know if what we're doing makes sense and the customers want it - that's not going to work. "
Steve Jurvetson
Know
Doing
Need
" Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. "
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Venture Capital
Business
Venture
" 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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Entrepreneur
Nothing
Team
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Medical
Speech
Learning
" I love photography. I love rockets. "
Steve Jurvetson
Photography
I Love
Rockets
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Failure
Better
Money
" We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. "
Steve Jurvetson
Want
Succeed
Stand
" 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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Doing
Work
Want
" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "
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Any
Think
Than
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Satisfaction
Life
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