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Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson

American Businessman

Born: Mar 1, 1967

Change People Space Time Will You

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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. Steve Jurvetson

Old Mind Spent Some Tend Entrepreneurs Naivete Know Doing Years Truly Trusted Very Often Childlike Original Thinkers

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

People Know Impressed Done Who

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. Steve Jurvetson

Only Invest Reduce Labor Businesses

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. Steve Jurvetson

If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round. Steve Jurvetson

Without disruptions, startups can't survive. Steve Jurvetson

Startups Without Survive Disruption

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. Steve Jurvetson

Science Slow More Computational Like Sciences Version Lab Biotech

You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out. Steve Jurvetson

You Else Out Miss Deals Got Close Quickly

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

Work Pure Deals Lots Situations Happen

One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors? Steve Jurvetson

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

Space Our Entire Always Been Office Space Exploration Fan Exploration Filled

We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat. Steve Jurvetson

I love what I do. I love to learn. Steve Jurvetson

Love Learn

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

Steve Jobs was my hero. Steve Jurvetson

Hero Jobs Steve Steve Jobs

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

Will Big Eat Part Green Big Part Organisms Tech Waste

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

Synthetic Chemicals Real Loves

The economies of the future are information. Steve Jurvetson

Future Economies Information

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

Care Venture Industry Really Thinks

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

Art Beauty Organic Evolution Compounding Derives Growth

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. Steve Jurvetson

I love photography. I love rockets. Steve Jurvetson

Love Photography Rockets

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