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" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "
Steve Jurvetson
Industry
Space
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" In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe. "
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" I love what I do. I love to learn. "
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" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "
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" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "
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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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" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "
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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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" Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine. "
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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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" In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves. "
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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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" Being slick is not the right answer. "
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Being
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" Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. "
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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "
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Politician
" 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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Technology
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" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "
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" Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. "
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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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" The economies of the future are information. "
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" Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. "
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Before
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" The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. "
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" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "
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Strongly
Meaningful
Change
" 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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" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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