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" 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. "

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

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" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "

" We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done. "

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

" 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. "

Steve Jurvetson

You

Successful

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow. "

" One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. "

" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. "

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

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

" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "

" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "

Steve Jurvetson

Horizon

Politician

" 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. "