American - Businessman | March 1, 1967 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.
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Without disruptions, startups can't survive.
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The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.
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Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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