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Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
Born: Mar 1, 1967
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Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
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. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. Steve Jurvetson
Elon Musk Individual Remarkable
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. Steve Jurvetson
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Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. Steve Jurvetson
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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? Steve Jurvetson
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Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. Steve Jurvetson
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IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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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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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. Steve Jurvetson
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Go to the moon - that's my dream. Steve Jurvetson
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The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. Steve Jurvetson
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IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition. Steve Jurvetson
Competition Face Energy Out Bizarre Kinds Clean Reaching Industries Chemicals Rockets Fuels Much Tech Now
I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations. Steve Jurvetson
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You have to build businesses for longer term. Steve Jurvetson
You Build Longer Term Businesses
There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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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. Steve Jurvetson
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