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" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Pretty
Money
Partnerships
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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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" 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. "
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" Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. "
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" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "
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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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" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "
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" Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. "
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Before
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" By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. "
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Venture
Rockets
Love
" 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. "
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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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Unique
Surface
Opportunity
" 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. "
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Nature
Bad
Youth
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Know
Doing
Need
" 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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Important
Name
Think
" 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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Childlike
Doing
Know
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Progress
Change
Change The World
" If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals. "
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You
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Like
" 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. "
Steve Jurvetson
Innovation
Internet
Space
" In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves. "
Steve Jurvetson
Chemicals
Synthetic
Real
" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "
Steve Jurvetson
Waste
Will
Big
" Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.' "
Steve Jurvetson
Deals
Work
Pure
" The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science. "
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Generation
Science
You
" I don't really care what the venture industry thinks. "
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Industry
Really
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" 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. "
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Gamers
Better
Lord
" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "
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Going
Autonomous
Eventually
" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "
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Any
Think
Than
" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "
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More
Closer
Technology
" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "
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Efficiency
Control
Process
" I love photography. I love rockets. "
Steve Jurvetson
Photography
I Love
Rockets
" There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed. "
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Content
Time
Chance
" Go to the moon - that's my dream. "
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Dream
Moon
To The Moon