Steve Jurvetson is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on March 1, 1967 in Arizona, United States. American businessman who is best famous for his role as the director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).
He as well as Hall of Fame NFL quarterback He and Hall of Fame NFL quarterback John Elway were both Stanford alumni. were both Stanford students.
Stephen T. Jurvetson (born March 1, 1967) is an American businessman and venture capitalist. Formerly a partner of the firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he was an early investor in Hotmail, Memphis Meats, Mythic and Nervana. He is currently a board member of SpaceX and Tesla, among others. He later co-founded the firm Future Ventures with Maryanna Saenko, who worked with him at DFJ.
Jurvetson grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from St. Mark’s School of Texas in 1985. At Stanford University, Jurvetson finished his degree in electrical engineering in 2.5 years and graduated No. 1 in his class. He then earned an M.S. in electrical engineering and an M.B.A., also from Stanford. His first job out of Stanford was working as an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP). After two years at HP, he moved on as a product marketer at Apple and then NeXT Software.
He got married to Karla Jurvetson in 1997.
