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" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "

Steve Jurvetson

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" Go to the moon - that's my dream. "

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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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" You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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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 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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" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "

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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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" 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. "

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" We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. "

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

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