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" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "
Steve Jurvetson
Late
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" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "
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" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "
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" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "
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" Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. "
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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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" In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves. "
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" Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. "
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" The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science. "
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" If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low. "
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" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "
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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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" When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy. "
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" My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible. "
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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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" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "
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" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "
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" I can't invest in areas of comfort. "
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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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" Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit. "
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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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" IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition. "
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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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" 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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" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "
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" There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work. "
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" There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience. "
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" We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. "
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