Steve Jurvetson

@FutureJurvetson

Co-founder of Future Ventures and DFJ, supporting passionate founders to forge a better future. Early VC investor in Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, Commonwealth Fusion.

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Joined March 2010

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Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson
14h
Was loving this pod with the polymath Naveen Rao, and then I came across this recollection of our first encounter: youtu.be/4UmFfI8CWuA?si…
Harry Stebbings
@HarryStebbings
Oct 24
I think @NaveenGRao is one of the most under-discussed but brilliant entrepreneurs of our time. He is able to consistently see where a market is going and place himself ahead of it. - Founded Nervana and sold to Intel for $400M. - Founded MosaicML and sold to Databricks for
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Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson
Oct 24
🚀 🌖 From our 2014 gathering — with commercial/new space leading the charge, the total cost of a permanent lunar presence is under $5B. Not per launch, or per year, but in total. It struck us that this could be the legacy of a single philanthropist! steve.blog/2016/12/20/moo…
Open Lunar Foundation and NASA Moon Base
Katie Miller
@KatieMiller
Oct 24
00:34
"The time is now." SpaceX board member @FutureJurvetson on why a permanent presence on the moon is finally realistic: SpaceX made getting to space cheap enough.
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Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson
Oct 24
And with CEO Brian Manning on Fox today: foxbusiness.com/video/64073105…
Liz Claman and Brian Manning
Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson
Oct 22
🛰🛰🛰 A great group of investors just invested $250M in next-gen GPS from Xona. On Tuesday, SpaceX launched 6 Xona sats, all operational. You can see one deployed in space in the last image, adorned with team signatures. Xona holds the first and only FCC license to operate a
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Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson
Oct 22
🛰🛰🛰 A great group of investors just invested $250M in next-gen GPS from Xona. On Tuesday, SpaceX launched 6 Xona sats, all operational. You can see one deployed in space in the last image, adorned with team signatures. Xona holds the first and only FCC license to operate a
Xona and Brian Manning
Chad Byers
@chadbyers
Oct 22
i'm proud to back @XonaSpace's $250M Series D alongside Future Ventures. I've long admired @FutureJurvetson and i'm excited to work with him on Xona. He's arguably the most successful space investor ever, having been very early at SpaceX (still on the BOD!) and Planet. GPS is
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Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson
Oct 21
I have never met a rich pessimist. Perhaps they are like crabs, doing some garbage collection, but they rarely drive progress for humanity. So, it was with some delight that I got an email from Forbes this morning saying their analytical engine deemed me the #63 "greatest living
Forbes
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