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"If you didn't understand evolution, and somebody explains it to you, you have to take your ego down a notch. You have to say: "Wait a minute. So humanity is not the endpoint of purposeful design? Wait – we're just kind of an accident?!"" This is the Global Estonians Podcast, and I'm your host Rainer Sternfeld, where my goal is to create a cross-section of the most remarkable people in the Estonian diaspora, thus celebrating our centenary a little less than a year from now. This is the 20th episode! As you know, every tenth episode we make is a special where I talk to someone who is of Estonian descent yet doesn't speak the seemingly unintelligible language, or is a big friend of Estonia who is contributing to the success of Estonia. We're recording this on March 24 2017, and my guest today is a polymath, a world renowned venture capitalist and the country's first e-resident outside Europe – Steve Jurvetson. In his day job, he invests in bold human endeavors in quantum computing, deep learning, electric cars,