#404: Books I've Loved — Steve Jurvetson
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Books I've Loved — Steve Jurvetson | Brought to you by Four Sigmatic.
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I'm doing called "Books I've Loved." I've invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books — the books that have influenced them, changed them, and transformed them for the better. I hope you pick up one or two new mentors — in the form of books — from this new series and apply the lessons in your own life.
Steve Jurvetson (@jurvetson) is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation. Steve was the early VC investor in SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, Memphis Meats, Hotmail, and the deep learning companies Mythic and Nervana. He has led founding investments in five companies that went public in successful IPOs and several others that were acquired for a total of over a $100 billion in value creation.
Before founding Future Ventures and DFJ before that, Steve was an R&D engineer at Hewlett Packard and worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT, and management consulting with Bain & Company. He currently serves on the boards of Tesla, SpaceX, and D-Wave.
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You can find all books mentioned in this episode in the show notes.
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| 0:02.0 | at this altitude i can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking |
| 0:06.3 | can i also your personal question? |
| 0:08.3 | now i just see it in a perfect time |
| 0:10.5 | what it might be like to be out of the sun? |
| 0:12.0 | i must have a nettie organism living this show on metal endoscopic |
| 0:24.1 | this episode is brought to you by four sigmatic |
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| 1:14.9 | get a lot more out of them the first time i mentioned this product and four |
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