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  • High-tech visionary still looking ahead

    High-tech visionary still looking aheadJurvetson is always eyeing the unconventional venture capitalist steve jurvetson, of draper fisher jurvetson in a handout pic from their web site.draper fisher jurvetson Steve Jurvetson has already proven himself in Silicon Valley as an alpha venture capitalist. Among his many successful bets was Hotmail, the e-mail service acquired by Microsoft back in 1997,

    High-tech visionary still looking ahead
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    aki1770 2008/06/08
    Deborah Gage and Ann Fernholm interview Steve Jurvetson:""The human brain is 100 times more efficient in calculation than the best computers," he said. "It just shows you how much headroom there is (for new companies with new techniques).""
  • Google leases acreage at Moffett for complex

    Site of future Google complex. Chronicle Graphic Google Inc. has moved a step closer to building a vast office complex at NASA Ames Research Center that will feature child care, fitness, dining, sports and conference facilities. It will even have employee housing, harkening back to the days of the company town, when big industry built small cities to accommodate their legions of workers. Google sa

    Google leases acreage at Moffett for complex
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    aki1770 2008/06/05
    Verne Kopytoff cites Pete Worden: ""With this new campus, we will establish a new era of expanded collaboration with Google that will further enhance our Silicon Valley connections," Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, said in a statement."
  • ON THE RECORD: VINOD KHOSLA

    1of6Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla discusses green technology and biofuels at his firm's office in Menlo Park, Calif., on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Photo by Paul Chinn / San Francisco ChroniclePaul Chinn/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less Flush with money and determined to save the world, the green-tech industry stands in full flower of its giddy youth. Venture capitalists are pumping billions into

    ON THE RECORD: VINOD KHOSLA
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    aki1770 2008/05/22
    Vinod Khosla argues: "So the important thing I like to say is that most investments will fail, but more money will be made than was invested. The experimentation is very important because without that funding, a Facebook would never have emerged."