Steve Jurvetson Quotes

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Steve Jurvetson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 1, 1967

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.

Steve Jurvetson

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

Steve Jurvetson

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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You have to build businesses for longer term.

Steve Jurvetson

Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit.

Steve Jurvetson

There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work.

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Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups.

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I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

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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.

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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.

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

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We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

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Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

Steve Jurvetson

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

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

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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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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.

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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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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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