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There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

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.

Steve Jurvetson

My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible.

Steve Jurvetson

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

Steve Jurvetson

As a geek, I take umbrage at the notion that chips are not sexy. But yes, robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me.

Steve Jurvetson

By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries.

Steve Jurvetson

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

I love what I do. I love to learn.

Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jobs was my hero.

Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson

The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

Steve Jurvetson

We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs.

Steve Jurvetson

The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

Steve Jurvetson

Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of.

Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.

Steve Jurvetson

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

Steve Jurvetson

Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

Steve Jurvetson

There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

Steve Jurvetson

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

Steve Jurvetson

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 to do and what to invest in.

Steve Jurvetson

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson

I don't really care what the venture industry thinks.

Steve Jurvetson

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

Steve Jurvetson

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Steve Jurvetson

Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting.

Steve Jurvetson

There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs.

Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson

If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.

Steve Jurvetson

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

Steve Jurvetson

Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit.

Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson