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" Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect. "

Steve Jurvetson

Power

Steps

Sales

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Comfort

" Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. "

" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

" IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world. "

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

" 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. "

" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "

Steve Jurvetson

Science

Slow

" 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. "

" Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. "

" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "

" There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work. "

Steve Jurvetson

Nothing

Work

" I love photography. I love rockets. "

" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. "

" 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. "

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

" Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. "

" 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. "

" It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock. "

" 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. "

" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

" I love what I do. I love to learn. "

" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "