Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. — Steve Jurvetson Always Copy Share Image
The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. — Steve Jurvetson Disruption 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
Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. — Steve Jurvetson Big Copy Share Image
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. — Steve Jurvetson Art Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. — Steve Jurvetson Control 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
Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while… — Steve Jurvetson Close 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
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
It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the… — Steve Jurvetson Awe Copy Share Image
If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like… — Steve Jurvetson Almost 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 would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the… — Steve Jurvetson Attention 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
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
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
Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which… — Steve Jurvetson Million Copy Share Image
Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. — Steve Jurvetson Control Copy Share Image
There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work. — Steve Jurvetson Facility Copy Share Image
Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. — Steve Jurvetson Good Copy Share Image
There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon… — Steve Jurvetson Apart 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
I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. — Steve Jurvetson Exploration 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
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
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
By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances… — Steve Jurvetson Agriculture 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
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
Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant… — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image