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Steve Jurvetson

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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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" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "

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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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" I love photography. I love rockets. "

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

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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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" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "

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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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" 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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" SpaceX lowered the cost of going into space by 10x. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" Being slick is not the right answer. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. "

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" 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. "

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" Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. "

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