Steve Jurvetson is a founding partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. He's invested in some of the world's most impactful companies including SpaceX, Tesla, and Skype, and is known for his deep interest in exponential technologies, artificial intelligence, and breakthrough innovation. His investment philosophy centers on identifying inflection points where technology reshapes industries.
8 Books Recommended by Steve Jurvetson
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Ready Player One
9 people recommendedA gift to all of my Apple II programming buddies from high school and Dungeons & Dragons comrades.
Also recommended by: Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Armstrong, Astro Teller, Bill Gurley, Austen Allred, Barry Ritholtz, George R R Martin, Jenn Im
GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach
7 people recommendedSteve Jurvetson mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Chris Hayes, David Deutsch, Demis Hassabis, Kevin Kelly, Sahil Lavingia
Abundance
5 people recommendedWrites 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.
Also recommended by: Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Richard Branson
The Fabric of Reality
3 people recommendedRealized that a quantum computer would be fundamentally unlike anything we have in this world today.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Chris Anderson
The Age of Spiritual Machines
3 people recommendedI 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.
Also recommended by: Balaji Srinivasan, Balaji S. Srinivasan
The single book thatβs had the most influence on me my entire life. [...] It started my life long fascination of the biological metaphors in technology.
Also recommended by: Ev Williams
A New Kind of Science
2 people recommendedA 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.
Also recommended by: Nassim Taleb
The Scientist in the Crib
The only thing I did to prepare for being a parent was to read [this book].