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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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" Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. "

Steve Jurvetson

Him

Valley

Leader

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

" You have to build businesses for longer term. "

" 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. "

" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "

Steve Jurvetson

Science

Slow

" 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. "

" I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "

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

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

" I love photography. I love rockets. "

" 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. "

" When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy. "

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

" 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. "

" We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat. "

" My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible. "

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

" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

Steve Jurvetson

Horizon

Politician

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

" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

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

Steve Jurvetson

Invest

Comfort

" 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. "