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Steve Jurvetson

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

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

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

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" You have to build businesses for longer term. "

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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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" Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation. "

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" There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience. "

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" Steve Jobs was my hero. "

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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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" 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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" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

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

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

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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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" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "

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" In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution. "

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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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" 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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" The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "

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" While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction. "

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