Steve Jurvetson
16 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2020 by Steve Jurvetson · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Venture Funds With Over Seven Partners See Returns Plummet
“I don't think venture firms scale at all at headcount. One of the biggest things I've learned in the last 25 years is that team size is essential between two and five partners max. If you get to seven, you're at your limit. If you had more than seven partners,…”
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Most Value in Tesla and SpaceX Was Created After Year 10
“At the 10 year mark was some of the greatest gains. If you look at, okay, at the 10 year mark, where it was Tesla, where it was SpaceX. And there were many, many billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars of value creation still to come.”
Aug 3, 2020 positive
Founders Perform Better After Taking 10% Secondary Liquidity
“You can do a better job as a manager if you're not operating from a place of fear, and if you can take 10% or so off the table and sort of cover your nest egg, if you will, or your ability to live in Silicon Valley, if that's where you're based, for example, a…”
Aug 3, 2020 positive
85% of Jurvetson's VC Hires Over 15 Years Were Women
“For example, of all the people I've hired into the venture industry over the last 15 years, and there's been a lot of them, about 85% have been women. The other was people of color, and all the people that I promoted on a venture track have been women.”
Aug 3, 2020 neutral
Jurvetson Asks Founders for 20-Year Vision to Weed Out Opportunists
“I like to ask every entrepreneur somewhere towards the end of the first pitch meeting, what does the company look like in 20 years? And I got to tell you, I get responses all over the map. The worst is they look at me with incredulous eyes or even laugh at the…”
Aug 3, 2020 positive
Great Founders Prioritize Mission Over Short-Term Financial Logic
“You want someone who's so deeply tied to their mission that they don't think about sort of the common logic of what's the best financial decision in the moment. And so that's why we look for that personality type in founders, because it correlates to this exac…”
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Jurvetson Evaluates His Market Timing on SpaceX and Planet Labs
“I think I was also early in synthetic biology, but I was probably just right on electric vehicles, probably just right on space with both SpaceX and Planet Labs and smallsats in general. And with what I call seller agriculture again, like growing meat in a bat…”
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