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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
