Steve Jurvetson Quotes

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Steve Jurvetson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 1, 1967

Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.

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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.

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Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

Steve Jurvetson

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

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The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.

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

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Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel?

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Elon Musk is a remarkable individual.

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Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers.

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Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

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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.

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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.

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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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The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Go to the moon - that's my dream.

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