Meet Peter Diamandis

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-Dec 28, 2025, 1:16 AM

Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. 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, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital and education. He is co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $500M investing in exponential technologies, and co-founder and Vice Chairman of Celularity, Inc., a cellular therapeutics company. hbspt.cta._relativeUrls=true;hbspt.cta.load(2973685, '7265daf9-db23-45c5-8524-34c7b10c2b3c', {"useNewLoader":"true","region":"na1"});

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... hbspt.cta._relativeUrls=true;hbspt.cta.load(2973685, '89774abe-841d-4f94-bafc-b32920e69b96', {"useNewLoader":"true","region":"na1"}); 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.”

Peter H. Diamandis (/ˌdiːəˈmændɪs/ DEE-ə-MAN-diss; born May 20, 1961) is an American engineer, physician,[1] and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University. He is also cofounder and former CEO of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University,... Diamandis was born in the Bronx, New York, to Greek immigrants.[3] At age 12, Diamandis won first place a rocket design competition.[4] After graduating from Great Neck North High School in 1979, Diamandis attended Hamilton College for his first year, then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study biology and physics.

During his second year at MIT in 1980, he cofounded Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.[5] Diamandis graduated from MIT in 1983[6][7] and entered Harvard Medical School to pursue his MD through the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. During his second year of medical school, he cofounded the Space Generation Foundation to promote projects and programs that would help the "Space Generation"—all those born since the flight of Sputnik—get off the planet.[4] In 1986, Diamandis put his medical degree on hold and returned to MIT to pursue a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics, conducting research at NASA Johnson Space Center, the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory... at MIT, Diamandis returned to Harvard to complete his M.D.[9] Recently named as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine, Diamandis is the Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive...

He is also the Executive Founder and Director of Singularity University, a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build a better future for all. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital, and education. He is also co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of two books: Abundance and BOLD. He earned degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from MIT and holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Peter’s favorite saying is “the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself. This presentation examines human need by category (e.g., water, food, energy, healthcare, education, communication, and freedom) and addresses how a range of powerful technologies such as synthetic biology, embedded networks and cloud computing, AI... This session also explains how the rapid growth of key exponential technologies (nano, info, bio) are empowering individuals and small companies to do what only governments were able to achieve only a few decades... Such technologies will drive a period of significant disruption and/or opportunity depending on the company's mindset. Diamandis' ultimate message is that companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve or they will die.

The future won’t wait. Schedule time with one of our advisors to create a program for your organization. Peter Diamandis, M.D. received degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and is a Harvard-trained physician. His entrepreneurship has led to the creation of over 25 companies in the areas of space, education, venture capital and longevity. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Dr.

Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which funds the design and operation of large-scale incentive competitions. As the executive founder of Singularity University, Dr. Diamandis counsels the world’s leaders on exponentially growing technologies with programs such as Abundance360 and the Abundance Platinum Longevity Program. He is the co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of the cellular therapeutics company, Celularity, Inc., and of Vaxxinity, Inc., which develops vaccines against COVID and chronic disease. Dr. Diamandis is also the co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Fountain Life, a co-Founder of BOLD Capital Partners and a Board Member of four successful SPAC exits.

Dr. Diamandis’ books, blogs, podcasts and webinars educate millions of individuals regularly. 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. No account? Register as an Organizer or an Agency

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