“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 fuele...”
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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 fuele...”
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“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...”
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“Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.”
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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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“Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give peo...”
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“I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.”
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“The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.”
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“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 wi...”
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“Elon Musk is a remarkable individual.”
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“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...”
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“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...”
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“Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley.”
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“SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasona...”
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“Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term pote...”
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“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...”
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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...”
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“In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed...”
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“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, the...”
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“Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often hav...”
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“Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.”
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