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With J.B. Straubel, co-founder of Tesla Motors, as he accepted the Deloitte Award for being #1 on the list of 500 fastest growing companies in America.

Congrats to all of the great companies in the Fast 500, and we’re proud to have invested in a dozen of them: Tesla Motors Xtime, PubMatic, Yodle, Box, Ping, Identity, Location Labs, Intematix, BrightSource Energy, Neophotonics, EnerNOC, and athenahealth.

Here is video of the Venture Capitalist of the Year award and fireside chat. (You can jump around in the video. The award starts at minute 3:00)

12 responses to “The 2012 Fast 500 and VC of the Year Awards”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    fireside chat, and more photos by Harry Who 152137171Merci !

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  2. rass999 denis laframboise Avatar
    rass999 denis laframboise

    For some reason, the video does not function (only on my computer maybe). And congratulation anyway. Have to tell you I had a dream of you last night. Woke me up at 4. You and Obama. Very cool dream.
    Have a great time this weekend Steve.

    denis

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  3. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Now I am curious… Were we dancing?

    Another shot from the event
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    with Neal East of Xtime, Ellen Levy, Shari Foldes, and Heidi Roizen from DFJ, and Karen Appleton from Box.

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  4. rass999 denis laframboise Avatar
    rass999 denis laframboise

    Somehow we were…Very pleasant person you are and so is Obama (he took me aside from a small crowd in a room to share with me some kind of personnel privilege) Wow . Do you ever have something to do with boat racing (hydroplanes) ? We talked about this you and me and you had photos of some boats on a shelf in your kitchen. And you presented me to one of your niece (maybe fourteen years old).
    Anyway, it was all very much fun and I just could not go back to sleep for an hour.

    Congratulation again for your very impressive success. Truly brings me joy.

    denis

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  5. Chucil Avatar
    Chucil

    Congrats!!!
    PS – Couldn’t see details of your cufflinks.

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  6. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    harry shoots swell!
    🙂

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  7. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Rass – it’s all Jungian symbolism percolated through the drip filter of the mind…

    Chucil – cuff details…. they are the function knobs from a couple Canon G9 cameras I salvaged for parts

    My Photo Cuffs

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  8. rass999 denis laframboise Avatar
    rass999 denis laframboise

    Yes I know but….this time Jung was telling me a very interesting symbolic story and I just love the filters he used. Ans those Canon G9 cuffs just can’t hide the neck off that thirteen cords guitar in the back.
    And maybe the Hydroplanes of the dream were linked to a job I did last week. If you have nine seconds to check.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/39581783@N08/8126080759/in/photostr...

    denis

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  9. js.brain Avatar
    js.brain

    Congrats Steve! You deserve it.
    We are very proud of you!! Very special.

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  10. sbove Avatar
    sbove

    Hearty congrats! I hope your work at DFJ permits you to become an official Obama science or innovation advisor in 2nd term. Silicon Valley needs a much higher profile in D.C.

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  11. *ivo* Avatar
    *ivo*

    Congratulations Steve! Very well deserved. Cheers 🙂

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  12. Todd Huffman Avatar
    Todd Huffman

    Congrats! An awesome set of companies!

    Re: science instruments, Ouch.

    From the article by sector:
    "SectorSector make-up of Fast 500"
    "Scientific/technical instrumentation1 percent"

    Thankfully Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical came in second at 13 percent.

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