Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

I taught myself HTML.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

Steve Jurvetson
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
Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson
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
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
Steve Jurvetson

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

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jobs was my hero.

Steve Jurvetson
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
Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson
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
Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

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.

Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson

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