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Steve Jurvetson is more excited about San Diego than most San Diegans.

He surveys the geometric pattern of the cliffs at Torrey Pines and posts a pic on his Flickr photostream: “The Purple Beach of 92037” — “ ’tis a magical place.”

But Jurvetson is no tourist. It’s the beach above the beach that brings him down from Menlo Park to La Jolla: “Biotech Beach.”

Board meetings. “San Diego’s ground zero for the renaissance that I call Biotech 2.0,” he tells me, and he Flickrblurbs: 2.8x as many companies as the next biggest node, South San Francisco.

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