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" If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name. "

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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. "

Steve Jurvetson

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World

Technology

" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

" 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. "

" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "

Steve Jurvetson

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Technology

" 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. "

" Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. "

" Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. "

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

" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

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

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

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

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

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I taught myself HTML. "

" If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest. "

" I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress. "

" Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets. "

" I can't invest in areas of comfort. "

Steve Jurvetson

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Comfort

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 Jobs was my hero. "

" By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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