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Leaders Interview With Peter H Diamandis Md Founder And Executive

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leaders interview with peter h diamandis md founder and executive

An Interview with Peter H. Diamandis, MD, Founder and Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation Peter Diamandis (diamandis.com) is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of over 25 companies in the areas of health-tech, AI, space, venture capital, and education. He is cofounder of Singularity University and curator of Abundance360. He serves as cofounder of two $500 million+ venture funds: BOLD Capital Partners, focused on health/longevity, and Link-xpv focused on AI. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE which has launched $550 million of incentive prizes driving $10 billion in R&D.

In the field of longevity, Diamandis is cofounder and chairman of Fountain Life. He has degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.” He has written six books including four New York Times bestsellers. His Moonshots Podcast focuses on AI and other exponential technologies, routinely exceeding 1 million downloads. XPRIZE (xprize.org) is the recognized global leader in designing and executing large-scale competitions to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. For 30 years, its unique model has democratized crowd-sourced innovation and scientifically scalable solutions that accelerate a more equitable and abundant future.

XPRIZE Founder, Peter Diamandis, at the Hevolution Global Healthspan Summit held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in November 2023 What inspired you to launch XPRIZE, and how do you define its mission? Credits: Anna Tutova(Founder AI Crypto Minds) with Peter Diamandis(Founder XPRIZE Foundation). In this interview with Peter Diamandis, visionary futurist, serial entrepreneur, best known, as Founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, co-Founder and executive chairman of Singularity University, named by Fortune as one of the "World’s 50... Peter reflects on his frustration with the limited avenues for private space exploration in the early ’90s, leading to the creation of XPRIZE to incentivize groundbreaking endeavors. Over the years, XPRIZE has evolved to address grand challenges across various fields, from space and ocean exploration to education and healthcare.

Peter emphasizes the importance of incentivizing entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious endeavors and shift focus from mundane pursuits to transformative innovations. The conversation delves into Peter’s vision for extending the healthy human lifespan and explores his thoughts on emerging technologies, including blockchain and AI. Peter discusses his beliefs in Bitcoin as a transformative force and its potential to empower individuals. Anna Tutova: Your main baby is probably XPRIZE. Can you tell us about the inspiration behind it? Peter Diamandis: Yeah, so the XPRIZE began really from my personal frustration of wanting to get to space.

And I realized that unless you are a government astronaut (this is back in the early nineties) your chance of becoming an astronaut was very low. And so, I read that Lindbergh in 1927 crossed the Atlantic to win a prize and said: «I’m going to create a prize for private spaceflight». And it worked. It took a decade to go from the original idea to being one, but it kicked off the commercial spaceflight industry, suborbital flights and then created the regulatory regime and attracted people to the... And since then, we’ve launched about $300 million of XPRIZEs, prizes to map the ocean floor, to pull water out of the atmosphere of CO2, for teaching kids in the middle of no place... We just launched XPRIZE to detect and put out wildfires autonomously.

We launched over half a $1 billion of prizes, including the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE, funded by Elon Musk and Musk Foundation (awarded in 2025) and the $101M Healthspan XPRIZE (announced 2023). So, it’s really about incentivizing entrepreneurs to try and take on bigger moonshots. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 25 companies in the areas of health-tech, space, venture capital and education. He is Co-founder and Vice-Chairman of two public companies, Celularity and Vaxxinity. Dr. Diamandis is Co-founder & Chairman of Fountain Life, a fully-integrated platform delivering predictive, preventative, personalized and data-driven health.

Finally, he also serves as Co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with a half-billion dollars under management being invested in exponential technologies and longevity companies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of four books: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think, BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World and The... Most recently he co-Authored the #1 best seller LIFE FORCE with Tony Robbins which chronicles the extraordinary healthcare and biotech revolution unfolding before our eyes. He earned degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Diamandis’ favorite saying is “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.”

AI + Quantum Computing | Entrepreneurship + Scaling | Healthtech AI + Quantum Computing | Entrepreneurship + Scaling | VIP Access Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter Diamandis is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 25 companies in the areas of health-tech, space, venture capital and education. He is Co-founder and Vice-Chairman of two public companies, Celularity and Vaxxinity.

Dr. Diamandis is Co-founder & Chairman of Fountain Life, a fully-integrated platform delivering predictive, preventative, personalized and data-driven health. Finally, he also serves as Co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with a half-billion dollars under management investing in exponential technologies and longevity companies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of four books: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think, BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World and The... Most recently he co-Authored the #1 best seller LIFE FORCE with Tony Robbins which chronicles the extraordinary healthcare and biotech revolution unfolding before our eyes. He earned degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and holds an M.D.

from Harvard Medical School. Diamandis’ favorite saying is “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.” An Interview with Peter H. Diamandis, Founder and Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter Diamandis is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive... He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world’s leaders on exponentially growing technologies.

As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 25 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital, and education. He is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Celularity, Inc., a cellular therapeutics company, and the Co-Founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250 million investing in exponential technologies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of three books: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think; BOLD – How to Go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World; and The... He earned degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and holds an MD from Harvard Medical School. XPRIZE (xprize.org) is the recognized global leader in designing and executing large-scale competitions to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. For 30 years, its unique model has democratized crowd-sourced innovation and scientifically scalable solutions that accelerate a more equitable and abundant future.

Peter Diamandis at the first Heinlein Prize with Art Dula, Kristen Diamandis and Buzz Aldrin When I got to MIT in 1980, I started my first company which was a nonprofit called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), which grew into a national and international organization... Famously, the president of the Princeton chapter was Jeff Bezos. From there, I started Space Generation Foundation with two colleagues that I had met through SEDS, and then the founding conference of the International Space University (ISU) which was on the campus of MIT. The Intersection of Audacity and Achievability An Interview with Peter H.

Diamandis, Founder and Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter Diamandis is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive... He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world’s leaders on exponentially growing technologies. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 25 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital, and education. He is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Celularity, Inc., a cellular therapeutics company, and the Co-Founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250 million investing in exponential technologies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of three books: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think; BOLD – How to Go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World; and The...

He earned degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and holds an MD from Harvard Medical School. XPRIZE Foundation, Inc. (xprize.org) is a not-for-profit corporation fostering and sponsoring competition to create innovative breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation conducts competitions in seven prize groups: Learning and Human Potential; Energy and Resources; Space and New Frontiers; Civil Society; Health and Wellness; Planet and Environment; and Shelter and Infrastructure. In addition, the Foundation provides and operates education and outreach programs related to its mission. These activities consist of speeches, visual presentations and educational materials in partnership with key academic institutions, as well as research and publication of information in the general public interest.

XPRIZE was incorporated in 1994 and is currently headquartered in Los Angeles, California. What was your vision for creating XPRIZE and how do you define its mission?

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