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" Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. "

Steve Jurvetson

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" I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before we know if what we're doing makes sense and the customers want it - that's not going to work. "

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

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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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" The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. "

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" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

Steve Jurvetson

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

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

Steve Jurvetson

" 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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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

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" When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed. "

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" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

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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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" Steve Jobs was my hero. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

Steve Jurvetson

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

Steve Jurvetson

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

Steve Jurvetson

" You have to build businesses for longer term. "

Steve Jurvetson

" 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. "

Steve Jurvetson

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

Steve Jurvetson

" I love photography. I love rockets. "

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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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