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" SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations. "

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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. "

Steve Jurvetson

Satisfaction

Life

" There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "

" Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. "

" If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low. "

" 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? "

" The economies of the future are information. "

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

Steve Jurvetson

Invest

Comfort

" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

Steve Jurvetson

Horizon

Politician

" 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. "

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

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

" I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. "

" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

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

" By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month. "

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