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" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "
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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" 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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" 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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" Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. "
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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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" Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. "
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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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" 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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" Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.' "
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" You have to build businesses for longer term. "
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" Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed. "
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" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "
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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. "
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" Being slick is not the right answer. "
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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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" I love photography. I love rockets. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money. "
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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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" 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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" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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