Steve Jurvetson

“I worry about the way in which cultural evolution is while it's progressing, it's not progressing fast enough. And we as a society are going through more rapid and gut-wrenching change of various sorts that we may or may not be able prepared to handle. So, for example, we may be in the midst, I would argue, of a ever a...”

— From #317: Steve Jurvetson — The Midas Touch and Mind-Bending Futures, BlackNova Productions (May 31, 2018)

“I think deep learning or let me just call it machine learning broadly. I think deep learning machine intelligence is the biggest advance in how we can do um engineering so specifically engineering since the scientific method itself. So way back when engineering might have been random like I think astrology is true or I...”

— From #317: Steve Jurvetson — The Midas Touch and Mind-Bending Futures, BlackNova Productions (May 31, 2018)

“Here you have something that is a fundamental capability like intelligence, like labor, like the fundamental underpinnings of all economic activity that are becoming automated in a way that they never were before. Uh that's both profoundly exciting and profoundly unprecedented in terms of the pace at which we may see d...”

— From The difficulty with trying to understand how AI works | Steve Jurvetson, Stanford Digital Economy Lab (April 23, 2026)

“The bad scenario is the transition from here to there and uh the complete lack of any regulatory or policy uh perspective that seems consistent with um you know a coherent path to a good future that we'd want.”

— From The difficulty with trying to understand how AI works | Steve Jurvetson, Stanford Digital Economy Lab (April 23, 2026)

“No, you don't control a teenager. You can't uh prove that it's safe and you can't understand how it works. The best you can do is make a better one next time. In other words, the locus of learning in developing these complex artificial systems is the process, not the product.”

— From The difficulty with trying to understand how AI works | Steve Jurvetson, Stanford Digital Economy Lab (April 23, 2026)

“100% of those jobs are going away. There's no reason any human is going to drive anything in the next 20 years. It will be fully autonomous. And that is a profound dislocation. What is the skill set for which they would transfer to? You know, how do we retrain? How do we find meaning in a world where humans are not the...”

— From The difficulty with trying to understand how AI works | Steve Jurvetson, Stanford Digital Economy Lab (April 23, 2026)

“This is why democracies and deregulated environments tend to achieve more changes because you have less regulatory capture, less of the big getting bigger, less authoritarian kind of regime protection and more disruption.”

— From Steve Jurvetson | Moonshots @ Vision Weekend USA 2025, Foresight Institute (November 01, 2025)

“Data center capex is now over 1% of US GDP and one group (McKenzie) believes it's going to go to $6.7 trillion by 2030; what it's being choked by is electricity — it's not a generation problem, it's a transmission and local use problem.”

— From Steve Jurvetson | Moonshots @ Vision Weekend USA 2025, Foresight Institute (November 01, 2025)

“This is why democracies and deregulated environments tend to achieve more changes because you have less regulatory capture, less of the big getting bigger, less authoritarian kind of regime protection and more disruption.”

— From Steve Jurvetson | Moonshots @ Vision Weekend USA 2025, Foresight Institute (January 28, 2026)

“Data center capex is now over 1% of US GDP ... McKenzie, one random group, believes it's going to go to $6.7 trillion by 2030. But what it's being choked by is electricity — it's not a generation problem, it's a transmission and local use problem.”

— From Steve Jurvetson | Moonshots @ Vision Weekend USA 2025, Foresight Institute (January 28, 2026)

“It was the idea to do that was Tim Draper's idea 100%. And I just want to give credit to him because it was incredibly cheeky at the time to embed a commercial message involuntarily to everything sent by your customers.”

— From Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193, This Week in Startups (October 16, 2025)

“I pivoted completely away and stopped investing in internet companies. It was really starting to get boring which is like derivative products yet another way to divvy up a market and sell to consumers. I pivoted hard to something that actually turned out to be not interesting: nanotech.”

— From Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193, This Week in Startups (October 16, 2025)

“If you ask anybody on the street what is Moore's law you will get different answers, but Gordon Moore never said that in 1965. He predicted something peculiar to the integrated circuit industry and that initial line was doubling every year and then in 1975 he modified it to doubling every two years.”

— From Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193, This Week in Startups (October 16, 2025)

“About 10–15 years ago Intel was no longer the frontier of Moore's law. Nvidia has taken that baton and has for the last decade and lately there are a lot of custom silicon solutions.”

— From Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193, This Week in Startups (October 16, 2025)

“A company like Mythic that we invested in recently can store eight bits of information in a single transistor ... you can make a neural network chip that works in the analog domain that's a thousandx better on power.”

— From Legendary VC Steve Jurvetson looks ahead at neutral networks, Tesla, nuclear power, and more | E2193, This Week in Startups (October 16, 2025)