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" 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. "

Steve Jurvetson

Drones

Yes

Things

" 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. "

" Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to build businesses for longer term. "

" Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. "

" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "

Steve Jurvetson

Cost

People

" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "

" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "

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

" I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine. "

" The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "

" 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. "

" Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves. "

" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "

" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

" I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "

" 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. "

" By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries. "

" 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. "

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

Steve Jurvetson

Invest

Comfort

" The economies of the future are information. "

" 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. "