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“You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out.”
“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.”
“Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.”
“By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.”
“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.”
“Firms that claim domain focus are late movers.”
“Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect.”
“Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.”
“Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.”
“I love photography. I love rockets.”
“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.”
“The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.”
“Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.”
“Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.”
“IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition.”
“Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.”
“Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.”
“I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.”
“I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world.”
“Elon Musk is a remarkable individual.”