Steve Jurvetson is a partner at DFJ. His current board responsibilities include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, and Tesla Motors (TSLA). He  was the founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven (IWOV), Kana (KANA), and NeoPhotonics (NPTN). He also led DFJ’s investments in other companies that were acquired for $12 billion in aggregate. Previously, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research, and computer design at HP’s PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a consultant with Bain & Company, Steve developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking, and semiconductor industries.

The following video is an interview with Steve Jurvetson during our Asteroid Day 2015 event in San Francisco in which he talks about leadership and the challenges of solving big problems such as preventing asteroid impacts

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Asteroid Day, June 30th 2015
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, California