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 Copy Share Image
When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. — Steve Jurvetson Control 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
Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High… — 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… — Steve Jurvetson Being 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
In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of… — Steve Jurvetson 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 Copy Share Image
Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth, — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I… — Steve Jurvetson 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 Copy Share Image
Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew… — Steve Jurvetson 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns… — Steve Jurvetson 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 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 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 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 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
We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to… — Steve Jurvetson Business 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 Copy Share Image
