Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. — Steve Jurvetson Control Copy Share Image
There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience. — Steve Jurvetson Audience Copy Share Image
Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. — Steve Jurvetson Because Copy Share Image
By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. — Steve Jurvetson Day 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 Commute Copy Share Image
There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. — Steve Jurvetson Between Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. — Steve Jurvetson Immortality Copy Share Image
I've actually come to respect the most irritatingly challenging people I've worked with as really valuable in improving group decision-making and what… — Steve Jurvetson Come Copy Share Image
By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new… — Steve Jurvetson Free Copy Share Image
Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. — Steve Jurvetson AI 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… — Steve Jurvetson Again Copy Share Image
IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run… — Steve Jurvetson Example Copy Share Image
We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run… — Steve Jurvetson Bold Copy Share Image
We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. — Steve Jurvetson Behind 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… — Steve Jurvetson Ask Copy Share Image
If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's… — Steve Jurvetson Bad Copy Share Image
Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the… — Steve Jurvetson Despair Copy Share Image
One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they… — Steve Jurvetson Best Copy Share Image
Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're… — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history… — Steve Jurvetson Customer Copy Share Image
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean,… — Steve Jurvetson Better 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… — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or… — Steve Jurvetson Art Copy Share Image
Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. — Steve Jurvetson Believe Copy Share Image
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. — Steve Jurvetson Art Copy Share Image
There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed. — Steve Jurvetson Chance 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… — Steve Jurvetson Being Copy Share Image
IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't… — Steve Jurvetson All kinds Copy Share Image
Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. — Steve Jurvetson Biotech Copy Share Image
Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth, — Steve Jurvetson Cost Copy Share Image
