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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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" 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

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

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

" It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution. "

" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

Steve Jurvetson

Horizon

Politician

" 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. "

" I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money. "

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

" I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. "

" When the venture capital industry invests, it's usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company. "

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

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

" One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors? "

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

Steve Jurvetson

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" 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. "

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

Steve Jurvetson

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People

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

" 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. "

" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "

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

" We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. "