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Steve Jurvetsonbook recommendations

Steve Jurvetson is an American businessman and venture capitalist. Formerly a partner of the firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he was an early investor in Hotmail, Memphis Meats, Mythic and Nervana. He is currently a board member of SpaceX and Tesla, among others.

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Steve Jurvetson on Out of Control
"The single book that’s had the most influence on me my entire life. [...] It started my life long fascination of the biological metaphors in technology."

Steve Jurvetson on The Scientist in the Crib
"The only thing I did to prepare for being a parent was to read [this book]."

Steve Jurvetson on A New Kind of Science
"A series of epiphanies from [the author] and others that the world is really interesting when you look at iterative algorithms applied millions and billions of times."

Steve Jurvetson on The Age of Spiritual Machines
"I have been maintaining [a graph from this book] ever since I read [this book], and I show it in every presentation I give. [...] I would go further and assert that this is the most important graph ever conceived."

Steve Jurvetson on Gödel, Escher, Bach
Steve Jurvetson mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Steve Jurvetson on Ready Player One
"A gift to all of my Apple II programming buddies from high school and Dungeons & Dragons comrades."

Steve Jurvetson on The Fabric of Reality
"Realized that a quantum computer would be fundamentally unlike anything we have in this world today."

Steve Jurvetson on Abundance
"Writes about [how] everything is great because physical things are so inexpensive that even the poorest of the poor could live like kings of just a few years prior."

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