A biography for Steve Jurvetsonhasn’t been written yet.
“If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.”
“Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.”
“When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.”
“Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of.”
“I can't invest in areas of comfort.”
“The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.”
“The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.”
“One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.”
“Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.”
“There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.”
“Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley.”
“By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.”
“We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.”
“A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.”
“When the venture capital industry invests, it's usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company.”
“Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.”
“When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.”
“Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while staying in lunar orbit.”
“The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a self-fulfilling prophecy or if it's something about the nature of those businesses.”
“In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.”