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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New aerospace technologies coupled with the spirit of competition will not only extend the boundaries of entertainment, but continue the public's appetite for space ignited a year ago when the Ansari X-Prize was awarded.
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Now we must keep the competition going, and help push the envelope faster, higher, and cheaper, to build the safe spaceships that will carry all of us to space. To this end, we have partnered with the state of New Mexico to create the X Prize Cup, to attract tens of thousands of people each year to New Mexico to see the spaceships of tomorrow take racing to new heights,
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I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.
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Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.
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You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.
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The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
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A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.
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We expect that the first X Prize Cup will actually occur in the summer of 2006. We have a couple of years to get the infrastructure in place, ... We're basically creating a new business model for the whole space business including media, sponsorships...and the X Prize Cup is an important part of that.
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The Rocket Racing League will inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky to find inspiration and excitement,
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Prizes change the public perception about an issue. The more prize money, the more the issue is seen as important by the public.
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Prizes add a really important mix to allow breakthroughs, because peer-reviewed research is typically focused on small, incremental advances.
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We went through a lengthy selection process ... narrowing it down to Florida and New Mexico. Both states provided us their best and final bid and they both offered very attractive opportunities.