American - Businessman | March 1, 1967 -
I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.
Steve Jurvetson
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I taught myself HTML.
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Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect.
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Steve Jobs was my hero.
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I started programming Apples in seventh grade.
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SpaceX lowered the cost of going into space by 10x.
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There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs.
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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.
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In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.
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The economies of the future are information.
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I don't really care what the venture industry thinks.
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If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest.
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