Steve Jurvetson
@FutureJurvetson • 110,219 subscribers
Co-founder of Future Ventures and DFJ, supporting passionate founders to forge a better future. Early VC investor in Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, Commonwealth Fusion.
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And thank you to the Morgan Stanley trading crew in “Mission Control” sculpting the debut of $SPCX today. Here is the moment of first trade. P.S. Elon finally agreed to the IPO greenshoe options… but only if the bankers all wore green shoes. 👟 —> Mementos for all.
Steve Jurvetson2,325,835 views • 1 month ago
OK Boomers In this iPhone video by John Cyrier from our vantage point to the south, you can see the sonic boom in the air at 20 seconds and hear it BOOM at 47 seconds. Incredible body feel. “A sky scraper went into space, returned to earth, and parallel parked” - Sylvia Smith
Steve Jurvetson4,093,975 views • 1 year ago
How Russian air bases fell to a novel multimodal drone attack ✈💥✈✈💥✈💥 Video includes Tu-95 strategic bombers and 41 planes near Northern Finland and deep in Russia, North of Mongolia. Operation Spiderweb: four Russian airbases attacked a few hours ago in a new transport method with large trucks delivering drone swarms from their rooftops to target specific target locations on each plane to maximize damage. While operating autonomously, remote tele-operators in Ukraine used Russian telecom networks to connect to the trucks, which received video feeds from each drone over unspooling fiber optic lines (immune to jamming). The trucks self-destruct after the attack. It was a swarm of small quadcopters in broad daylight, easily evading Russia’s layered air defenses. No Ukrainian losses in this special military operation. Billions lost for Russia, some of the nuclear bombers are irreplicable. Video clips from Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦
Steve Jurvetson146,100 views • 1 year ago
Dean Kamen demonstrates his low-cost self-administered vaccine delivery invention. No skills needed. No scary needle. Localized delivery to dendritic cells in the skin (to better promote an immune response). Universal vaccines (a single lifetime shot for all flu, HIV, malaria, or coronaviruses) from Centivax, Baker Lab at UW, and others will want better delivery methods for billions of people. At SynBioBeta today.
Steve Jurvetson116,687 views • 1 year ago
Photon Fun This FOT is made from 90 million optical fibers fused and stretched. It magnifies whatever it is on top of by 3x without lenses. Each fiber is like an independent pixel, stretched 3x. This is the same multi-channel approach Mojo uses for optical links in data centers.
Steve Jurvetson22,747 views • 2 months ago
Bench-pressing the boys… a birthday challenge that gets harder each year! 🎂
Steve Jurvetson21,499 views • 4 months ago
Close encounters of the fourth kind 👽💞 Out of box first encounter with Grimes' voice in Baby Grok. It's a beta version, and latency will obviously improve... but it sure engages our 4-year old. The Grem version is "an alien that can talk." Thx 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ and Curio 🤖
Steve Jurvetson71,058 views • 2 years ago
☄️ Of all of my space rocks, this Bjurböle is quite special, as it was recovered from the seabed, with great effort, in 1899. It is the only complete recovery of a meteorite at sea. Meteorites hit the Earth randomly, and thus ~70% of them hit the oceans and disappear forever. This claim was a reasonable assumption, since 71% of the Earth is covered by ocean, and it was recently verified by analysis of the world’s infrasound sensors used to monitor the nuclear Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The sensors recorded meteorite impacts by land and by sea, as seen in the B612 video here. Here’s is how this unique space rock recovery happened: on March 12, 1899, at 9:30pm, a bright fireball screamed over my homeland of Estonia on final approach, making a thunderous noise like artillery fire for what seemed like minutes and smashed into the Baltic Sea. Helsinki’s major newspaper Päiväleht asked for witness details and drawings to help locate the fall. As a result of Finnish citizenry’s efforts, the trajectory of the fireball was triangulated, and its impact point was determined to be in the Baltic Sea about 50 kilometers from Helsinki. Because the Baltic Sea was still frozen over in March, there was evidence of the point of impact — a three-meter hole in the surface ice. Then the recovery effort: they tried to find it by poking around with sticks, but the meteorite was 25’ down on the bedrock. So, they built a waterproof well out of wooden beams and dropped it through the hole in the ice. The well was pumped to empty out the water and mud. This did not succeed completely, but in the end a diver was able to find the fractured meteorite and pull it out. It was then displayed the following year at the World’s Fair in Paris in the Finnish pavilion. Bjurböle is a distinctive LL4 meteorite. It is unusually friable and its fine-grained creamy matrix is packed with chondrules — spherical silicate-rich droplets of fiery rain that aggregated from the dust and ice of our early solar system, before the planets formed. It also sports the catalog stamp of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (and was obtained by a meteorite trade).
Steve Jurvetson20,793 views • 6 months ago