Steve Jurvetson Quotes

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Steve Jurvetson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 1, 1967

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.

Steve Jurvetson

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

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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.

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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.

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I taught myself HTML.

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Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect.

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Steve Jobs was my hero.

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I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

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SpaceX lowered the cost of going into space by 10x.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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The economies of the future are information.

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

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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.

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I love photography. I love rockets.

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

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