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Steve Jurvetson

@FutureJurvetson

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

Los Altos and San Francisco
Joined March 2010
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
4 years
Looking up to the skies with open eyes! Went to HQ and set up a Starlink terminal that connected to the satellites orbiting overhead. Simplest out-of-box experience imaginable. Can't wait to upgrade my broadband later this year!
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@elonmusk @cb_doge I had lunch with the ceo of Marici on Friday, the non profit that busts child sex trafficking rings. I asked who is most to blame for this happening. Without hesitation, he said "Meta." "We try to work with them, but they are not helping."
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Starships are meant to fly... An incredible launch this morning, with 33 Raptor engines breathing fire, hot staging over the Gulf of Mexico, boost back to the ocean, good upper stage burn, and test of the Pez bay door. Starship engine relight and reentry to splashdown to come.
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Amazing @SpaceX shots of the 1st test vehicle hop for Starship โ€” the 1st fully-reusable launch system. The radical difference in cost is perhaps best understood with flights on Earth: 30 minutes to fly between continents, at a lower cost than taking an airplane, in coach class.
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1000 drones flying in fluid formation โ€” the largest assemblage ever at Burning Man. Produced by Drift Robotics, it filled the sky with mesmerizing beauty.
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Tesla now holds the mantle of Mooreโ€™s Law. Just as NVIDIA took leadership from Intel a decade ago. While the substrate has shifted several times, humanity's capacity to compute has compounded for 122 years as if on rails. It's surreal. Log scale details:
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Steve Jurvetson
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Filming the BBC series on Elon Muskโ€” full of original interview material. Episode 1 covers the early years of SpaceX, including the catalytic moment in Moscow when the Russian rocket excecutive spat on Elon. So Elon decided to build his own rockets. Enjoy:
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Steve Jurvetson
4 years
Incredible closeup with telescopic-tracked slo-mo, with the film rig at the end. Yesterday's flight was also the fastest turnaround of a booster (it carried the astronauts to station) and the first ship-catch of both fairing halves which returned by automated parachute kiting.
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Cosmic Perspective
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Engine closeup in flight ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿš€ Another look at @SpaceX Falcon 9 with #ANASIS2 and telescopic tracked slomo ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐ŸŽฅ @elonmusk ๐Ÿ™crazy scope crew @OPT_Telescopes @Erdayastronaut @astroferg #SpaceX #slowmotion
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Fusion is no longer a science project. "in seven peer-reviewed papers in a special issue of The Journal of Plasma Physics, researchers laid out the evidence that SPARC would succeed and produce as much as 10 times the energy it consumes." More from NYT:
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Just 5 years ago, Tesla began shipments of the first mass-market EV โ€” the Model 3. With a palpable crackle of excitement in the air, we took delivery of VIN 5. We named her Luna and drove on the surface of Mars, a new mapping feature. Thank you for leading the๐ŸŒŽ to the future!
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Starships are Meant to Fly Visiting the "Gateway to Mars" โ€” the SpaceX Boca Chica manufacturing and launch site. Test Vehicle SN9 is in the high bay next to Stargate. Inside the giant nose cone, with lots of room for passengers. More of my photos:
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A sufficiently advanced AI would chose to fail the Turing Test.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Metals from the depths of the sea ๐ŸŒŠ Plucked from the vast silt of the Abyssal Plains, this polymetallic nodule is rich in the metals needed for EV batteries and low-carbon energy. I just joined the Board of The Metals Company to help them harvest the worldโ€™s largest deposits ofโ€ฆ
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Table of dreams, at SpaceX today. My, how big they are! And some nice shadow waffles too. At hypersonic speeds, the upper atmosphere is like molasses, so these fins near the top of the booster effectively guide and stabilize the return flight.
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A watershed moment: Google now spends more on compute than on people.
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They called it Medicineโ€™s Best Kept Secret โ€” at UCSF today. You have probably seen ultrasound images of babies, but if you arrange an array of ultrasound transducers to focus to a point, they can manipulate cells and membranes like a magnifying glass focusing sunlight to aโ€ฆ
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Tesla Dojo Supercomputer Tile โ€” Smart and Beautiful ๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿ’• This one tile can do 9 quadrillion floating point calculations per second, optimized for AI training. I saw it up close today. Each 15kW tile holds a 5x5 array of blocks, each with 12 D1 multi-chip-module stacks,โ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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My Wedding Band โ€” Made in Space I love how it turned out. This 4-billion-year-old meteorite was weaponized by the Nama over 10K years ago, a sneak peek into the iron age. It cooled very slowly, over millions of years, forming a crystalline pattern that cannot be made on Earth.
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Steve Jurvetson
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A moment, at the Gateway to Mars today. SpaceX is forging the future of our dreams and aspirations.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Imagine new tunnels running under your most congested highway. For urban areas, it would be the cheapest way to add lanes. This becomes true when you start with the inevitable EV-only future, and then chain back to the present.
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Elon Musk
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These would be road tunnels for zero emissions vehicles only โ€” no toxic fumes is the key. Really, just an underground road, but limited to EVs (from all auto companies). This is not in place of other solutions, eg light rail, but supplemental to them.
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Steve Jurvetson
4 years
SpaceX SN-5 Hop and Powerslide just now. One powerful Raptor engine, mounted off-center (as it will eventually be part of a central triad), so the thrust vector relative to the center of gravity requires a tilt coming off the pad. Wow. Thanks for the perspective @Erdayastronaut
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Steve Jurvetson
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@elonmusk @SpacePadreIsle @SpaceX The sun splashed side of SN8, straining toward the stars. Up close, parts of it resemble the architecture of Frank Gehry.
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@SpacePadreIsle Post flight inspection and treasure hunt
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Steve Jurvetson
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Got thrust? SpaceX Super Heavy booster lowering onto the launch pad for its maiden voyage. 29 Raptor engines. 17 million pounds of thrust. For context, thatโ€™s >2x the Saturn V, former heavyweight champ of Apollo. (Awesome photo by @TheJackBeyer , posted with permission)
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Steve Jurvetson
3 years
The future is upon us when reality is better than fiction. Dragon's first selfie in space
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@elonmusk Most picturesque launch ever. Here's shot from a guy who went to his first rocket launch... and he captured this! From
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On the eve of the Starship test flight, a reminder of why full reusability is a game changer for access to space... While the industry is following the red line, SpaceX is on a different curve. Note: a straight line is an exponential on this semi-log graph.
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This has never been seen before โ€” live video of reentry, thanks to the Starlink terminal on Starship! ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ“ก ๐Ÿ›ฐ As it reenters the atmosphere at high speed, the 18,000 heat tiles on Starship protect it from heat, and the plasma you can see here interrupts radio links to theโ€ฆ
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Sheโ€™s breaking up, sheโ€™s breaking up! Around 1am, Gen saw this incredible spectacle streak across the Cabo sky for over a minute. It is a spacecraft breaking at 17,500 MPH. Various parts break off the bright main mass, and separate from differential drag in the upper atmosphere.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Cybertruckin'
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Steve Jurvetson
4 years
Besting the Best, again "We have this car, this one program, beating the competition on core technology like a drum. From behind the wheel, everything else feels like a sluggish, sloppy antique. The endgame of petroleum will be a decade of shuddering like washing machines" โ€” WSJ
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Making history never looked so good. I always knew the first Model S would end up in a museum, and I am happy to say it now resides in the Petersen Museum, along with the other early Teslas I donated to them. I have compiled some reviews from its 2012 releaseโ€ฆ and they stillโ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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Flown Dragon Panel from the First Crew Mission After 63 days in space, it jettisoned to initiate parachute recovery. It is incredibly special to me, carrying Bob & Doug and the SpaceX logo to the ISS โ€” the rebirth of American spaceflight. Found at sea โ–บ
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Steve Jurvetson
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The Starship SN8 Test Vehicle โ€” Rapid Unscheduled Artwork Channeling the energy of Frank Gehry architecture & a Flaming Lotus Girls art installation at Burning Man. The sun-splashed side, straining toward the stars evokes the Jawas of Star Wars, joining me in the treasure hunt.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Now that's an overview! ๐ŸŒŽ The new SpaceX Cupola. The Inspiration4 Crew have one on this training capsule as well. When they launch on Sept 15, there will be three SpaceX Dragons in orbit at the same time, with two perched at station and the third free-flying above the ISS.
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Steve Jurvetson
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It's not everyday that you get to explore rocket engines with Everyday Astronaut. We traced the LOX and H2 lines around my RL 10 like a couple of excited children ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿš€ First developed in 1959, the RL 10 still flies today as the upper stage for ULA rockets:
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@Erdayastronaut
Everyday Astronaut
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I had the absolute pleasure of seeing @FutureJurvetson โ€™s UNBELIEVABLE Spaceflight collection!!! Some of this stuff I canโ€™t believe I got to see & touch ๐Ÿคฏ all of the stories behind every single piece is worthy of a video, I need more time in life ๐Ÿ˜ญ Thank you so much Steve!
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Steve Jurvetson
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Connecting directly from your existing cell phone to Starlink ๐Ÿ›ฐ to start next year, for texting and voice calls and email. 2-4Mbps per cell. And think of natural disaster response. All cellular stations can be out on the ground, but Skynet carries on. :)
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Made in Space: the A-T-G-C of our DNA ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿงฌ โ˜„ A bombshell in Nature today โ€” All of the base pairs of our biology have now been found in CM2 meteorites, supporting the theory that lifeโ€™s precursors arrived on Earth from abiotic origins past Jupiter. How?
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Deepmind's Demis Hassabis at TED tonight When asked about Microsoft + OpenAI spending $100B to train their next model: "Google will have spent more than that over time. To get to AGI, you need a lot of compute. Google still has the most compute." "With protein folding, we didโ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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Neuralink livestream with Elon and demo starting now:
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Steve Jurvetson
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@elonmusk I went for the tip
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Steve Jurvetson
3 years
@thejackbeyer @NASASpaceflight A moment of reflection.... before the treasure hunt :)
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Steve Jurvetson
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@Erdayastronaut takes the ๐Ÿ‘‘ This just in, from the WSJ twitter-verse analysis:
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Steve Jurvetson
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The long, hard path to reusable rocket boosters: six years ago we witnessed the big-bada-boom of the F9R test vehicle in Texas. Henry Ford: โ€œFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again." Elon: โ€œGiven the options, I prefer to learn from success." โ€”
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Steve Jurvetson
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๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ซ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ: ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐— ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜‚๐—บ ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป: ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ: ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ When you get serious in space: ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ May the Forth Be With You for #StarWarsDay
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Steve Jurvetson
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The Starship ๐Ÿš€gets fully stacked today for its maiden voyage. It's the worldโ€™s first and only fully reusable orbital rocket. It's 120m (393 ft) tall, like a skyscraper. Breathtaking! In this new Starbase interview, Elon lists his rules for engineering:
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From X to X: Teslaโ€™s Transition I have been smitten with Tesla for 15 years now and have purchased the safest car ever made for everyone in my family and firm. Over the years, it has been clear how the cars have improved vertically, from one model to the next. But now that I haveโ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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The scale is awe inspiring looking up.... the future of spaceflight in the making. Photos: Starship SN9, a matrix of heat tile attach pegs, majordomo of space, reusable metal fuel tank for humans.
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Steve Jurvetson
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It crept up on me, but X has become the single most important product/service in my life.
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Steve Jurvetson
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@kvogt What a wild weekend for AI CEOโ€™s. Now a question of Cruise control.
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Steve Jurvetson
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I am Grok! Grok is already sublime. Its creation transcends traditional engineering. And the Hitchhikers and Guardians of our Galaxy know that humor is the birdsong of human intellect. Details at and @ElonMusk
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@hiromichimizuno @elonmusk Thank you. It has been incredibly rewarding to work with the board and Tesla team as you forge the future โ€” a better future than anyone else in the industry thought possible.ย  Tesla is squarely on the right side of history and making the world a better place for all.
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Steve Jurvetson
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If you have not seen this beforeโ€ฆ what do you think?
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Steve Jurvetson
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On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin erected an American flagpole on the moon for the first time. But few are aware that it flew for only 14 hours. When I obtained the prototype build of the Apollo 11 flag and brought it to Buzz Aldrin, his eyes went wide. He signed it, pointed outโ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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Stage prep for the 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day. โšก๏ธ Itโ€™s a surreal sight from the stage โ€” a sea of Teslas, the EV Future. Each vehicle has a custom program to display the show on their central screens. Livestream starts at 1:30pm PST:
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Steve Jurvetson
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Hello, Future! My partner Maryanna Saenko and I are excited to launch Future Ventures today with our $200 million venture fund focused on bold moon shots by the mission-driven founders who forge the future. More: Welcome to the
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The inevitable EV future, as seen in two graphs from today's WSJ: 1) EVs now cost less than gas cars in China and Europe, and should cross over in the U.S. next year. 2) Lithium-ion storage has the best experience-curve slope. Most industries have a logarithmic rate of costโ€ฆ
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@SpaceX And a beautiful view of the grid fins slicing through the cloud layer just prior... Such a beautiful landing, and polar launch from the Cape!
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OMG โ€” SpaceX just stuck the landing with Starship SN10!!!! Such an incredible engineering accomplishment, from the Gateway to Mars! When they get this operational, it will cost less than a coach airline ticket to fly around the world, in space. Watch:
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The new CEO of Microsoft AI, @MustafaSuleyman , with a $100B budget at TED: "AI is a new digital species." "To avoid existential risk, we should avoid: 1) Autonomy 2) Recursive self-improvement 3) Self-replication We have a good 5 to 10 years before we'll have to confront this."
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Steve Jurvetson
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@PPathole @elonmusk The loan and financing round you reference are the same (it was a convertible note to the next round). Elon led the financing in late 2008, in the company's darkest hour. Elon's commitment to do it all himself if need be flipped investor sentiment from fear, and it saved Tesla.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Young people might not get itโ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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Meaningful work at tech companies. Congrats to #1 @SpaceX and #2 @TeslaMotors . I think this is the root of success.
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CอขOอขNอขGอขRอขAอขTอขUอขLอขAอขTอขIอขOอขNอขSอข to the SpaceX Starship team!! Singularly chosen today by NASA for their Human Landing System. Go NASA, Go Artemis, Go SpaceX, Go, Go, Go! From a sustainable human presence on the moon, to Mars and beyond! News:
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Steve Jurvetson
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โ€œWe are putting the actual auto in automobile.โ€ โ€” Elon today I predict that within 10 years, anyone reading this will have shifted their vehicle preference to a single primary variable โ€” the autonomous software stack. Everything physical will become a relative commodity. Safetyโ€ฆ
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Steve Jurvetson
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Shooting the Moon ๐Ÿš€ ๐ŸŒ– A magical Falcon Heavy launch tonight of the USSF X-37B spaceplane, as captured in lunar alignment by the talented John Kraus, with 27 engines under thrust, and then, the two side boosters returned to Earth in a beautiful ballet of fiery synchrony.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Olโ€™ Red ๐Ÿš˜ ~ the mimetic singularity is near
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Steve Jurvetson
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Each ๐Ÿ›ฐ cluster launch adds 1Tb/sec of bandwidth, with more to come, connecting the next 4 billion people to the global economy. You can track the sky net in formation; select "All" in the Launch pull-down menu at the top of More:
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Steve Jurvetson
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The Rocket's Red Glare โ€” for Veteran's Day. Congrats to @SpaceX on the successful deployment of the next 60 Starlink satellites, on a path to bring the next 4B people online. Some firsts today: 4th return of a booster, 2nd flight of a fairing, and the heaviest payload so far.
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Steve Jurvetson
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Up in the Swing Arm and Dragon Spacecraft with CREW-1 ๐Ÿš€ Launch Rehearsal is GO FLIGHT for Saturday's night launch! NASA Flight Certification noted 8 million hours of simulation work. "We need the doors that open like this" โ€” bringing ๐˜š๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ to the Cape ๐Ÿ™‚
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Steve Jurvetson
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Every SpaceX product and major subcomponent is a fully autonomous vehicle.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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Aloha, welcome back from space ๐Ÿ’ซ
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Steve Jurvetson
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My heart breaks for the women and girls of Afghanistan. Here are some photos from Kabul before the virulent theocracy, from one generation ago (1950's-70's). I wonder if they could imagine what was to come.
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What a SpaceX day! ๐Ÿš€ The latest quarterly market share for launch just published. SpaceX carried 83% of the world's tonnage to orbit โ€” 246x all other U.S. launch providers combined. China had seven different launch providers succeed in Q4, and North Korea joined the list.
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Captainโ€™s log for the Starship enterprise โ€œSteel is the best design decision I have ever madeโ€ The fleet will launch 1000x more than all of Earth capacity combined. "You need that to build a city on Mars. So, itโ€™s gotta be done.โ€ Elonโ€™s slides & more:
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Giant Emoji in the Sky NASA's huge SLS rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center this morning. Rocket photographer John Kraus captured the moment of solid booster separation, with the core stage continuing on its way to the moon. Go Artemis, twin sister of Apollo, go, go, go!
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
11 months
The evolution of Starships at the SoaceX Design Center today.
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
10 months
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ž๐ข๐ฅ ๐€๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ โ€™๐ฌ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ On July 21, 1969, two butterfly valves opened in Eagle's Valve Package Assembly (as seen here in my test unit), feeding propellant into the ascent stage engine, and Apollo 11 lifted off the moon. Neilโ€ฆ
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
6 months
@elonmusk this looks like it flew right out of my sci-fi memory banks
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
6 months
You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming? (๐—‹๐–พ๐–ป๐–บ๐—…๐–บ๐—‡๐–ผ๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ฒ๐—‰๐–บ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–ท ๐—‰๐—๐—ˆ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Œ)
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
7 years
I went for stills. I am in total awe. @elonmusk speechless too. @SpaceX @SES_Satellites
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
5 years
And so it begins... This is what 60 broadband data satellites look like, stacked for launch, many more than people thought were possible on one Falcon 9. The next 4 billion will come online and connect to the global economy more quickly than most forecasts have assumed.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 years
First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit.
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
2 months
This could be important. ARK Invest just released a long-term perspective on five mutually-catalytic technology sectors (colored in the graph) that could lead to unprecedented economic growth in the next 6 years โ€” becoming a staggering 60% of total global market value! Lookingโ€ฆ
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
6 months
A glorious launch of the largest rocket today from Starbase, starting at minute 38:30 with all 33 engines firing, for 2x the thrust of the Apollo Saturn V And successful Starship hot-staging overhead with the booster burn back and then, excitement guaranteed! Bravo Team SpaceX!
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@SpaceX
SpaceX
6 months
Watch Starshipโ€™s second integrated flight test โ†’
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
5 years
CONGRATS to SpaceX on the deployment just now of 60 broadband data satellites, delivering 1TB of bandwidth from above. Many more to come. Connecting the next 4B people to the global economy. New sat design, deployment, Krypton thrusters and more. Been waiting for this day!
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
1 year
With a Neuralink implant from brain to computer, โ€œour goal is that you could type better than a person with working hands. Ot restore vision even if you were born blind.โ€ โ€” @ElonMusk
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
1 year
@elonmusk @teslaownersSV aka 4/20 some cosmic countdown karma
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
10 months
1st Estonian flag to fly in space ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช 275 days in orbit, thx to SpaceX. Estonia is my homeland, so it's special to me. Several flags flew on Apollo, but Estonia was occupied by the evil empire then. Like Ukraine today... and that's the next flag I plan to fly. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆSlava Ukraini!
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
4 years
@elonmusk ๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™œ๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™๐™ค๐™ฅ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™๐™ช๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™......... Four more amazing @SpaceX drone shots
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
2 months
@SciGuySpace Last time I saw 60 Minutes trash SpaceX, Neil Armstrong wrote a strongly worded letter to 60 Minutes saying that he was taken out of context in that criticism. The program editor agreed: "Armstrong wrote us to say we had not been complete in our description of his testimony. He'sโ€ฆ
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
4 years
Getting psyched for the @Neuralink live update today. Teaser: You can watch the webcast starting at ~3:30 PST:
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
3 years
Having spent a fair bit of time with @SamHarrisOrg , from philosophy to atheism to AI, I must say, they did a good job here. GPT-3 cost ~$15 million to train with an 8-yr common crawl of the Internet (60%), Reddit-sourced text (22%), a corpus of books (15%) and Wikipedia (3%).
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
3 years
Instagram vs. Reality Hitting the town
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
3 months
@balajis Love this post. Consumer hardware is the worst VC investment sector by far. 99.9% of all consumer startups are long term failures (20 years later). True: โ€œThe better you are, the better you understand how much better Elon is. Everyone in tech understands the sport weโ€™reโ€ฆ
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
3 years
Early Believers in a Bright EV Future ๐Ÿš— The first Tesla employee signatures & the first customers at the Tesla launch party, July 2006. Silent, zero-emissions prototype cars circled in a ring around us. I was smitten. I became a customer before I could become an investor.
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
4 months
@matt_vanswol Have you bought a Tesla with FSD?
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@FutureJurvetson
Steve Jurvetson
2 years
Magical mystery tour at the SpaceX factory today. Commander Isaacson brought this watch with him for 3 days orbiting in the Dragon capsule. +New starship hoodie and Starlink node. Glass front shows the Hohmann transfer orbit from Earth to Mars, so everyone remembers the mission.
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