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Steve Jurvetson [1967-0] American

Stephen T. "Steve" Jurvetson is an American businessman and venture capitalist. He is currently a partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was a venture capitalist investor in Hotmail. He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras. Current board seats include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, Planet Labs, Nervana Systems, Flux, D-Wave, and Tesla Motors. Jurvetson was the world's first Tesla Model S owner and the second Tesla Model X owner, following Elon Musk.

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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.	History	101
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.		102
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.		103
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.		104
If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.		105
Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.		106
Go to the moon - that's my dream.		107
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.		108
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.		109
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.		110
Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.		111
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.		112
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.		113

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