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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It is definitely an unusual flight trajectory. But it is not a dangerous flight trajectory.
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For me, it is a remembrance of sort of 'Star Wars' pod racing, ... Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace.
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And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point. It's the cost of operations that makes the space shuttle cost three-quarters of a billion dollars per launch. Fuel is one percent of the cost. It's the operations that we have to work on.
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These teams with their different approaches show real out-of-the-box thinking,
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These teams with their different approaches show real out-of-the-box thinking. That's what the Ansari X Prize is doing...allowing people to innovate and learn how to operate a new class of vehicle.
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It's bringing 21st-century racing into people's personal living rooms. ... It's really the mix of NASCAR excitement and spaceflight.
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In one sense, the X Prize has already succeeded. We've sparked a diverse set of vehicles that are being tested and built. Secondly, we've got people excited about this market place.
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This is where innovation begins. It's all part of the samemission, which is to make space personally accessible to the public.
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For me, it's sort of a remembrance of 'Star Wars' pod racing.
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All of a sudden, something that was dangerous was attractive to potential sponsors who saw it as a highly visible thing, like race cars. Or it was attractive to wealthy individuals who were looking to do something fun.
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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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The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing,
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An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
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More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.