Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis
Peter H. Diamandisis a Greek–American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, the co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, the co-founder and vice chairman of Space Adventures...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 May 1961
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Clearly there is room for a number of locations for suborbital personal spaceflight. If all goes well, this will be a rising tide that lifts many spaceports, and for the first time enables a true commercial market.
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In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,
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We need to be willing to take risks we were willing to at the beginning of space exploration and every other frontier, ... We're not going to have these breakthroughs until we have a profitable industry.
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We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,
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You have raised a tide that will bring billions of dollars into the industry and fund other teams to compete. We will begin a new era of spaceflight.
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Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.
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Our hope is that the X Prize Cup activities will help bring suborbital tourism operators to the southern New Mexico site for year-round passenger launch operations.
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It is definitely an unusual flight trajectory. But it is not a dangerous flight trajectory.
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We're creating an event that has multiple things happening over two-weeks and during a fixed period of time. There's going to be lots going on.
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If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.
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You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.
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In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.
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You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
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Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.