Peter Diamandis
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Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.  Best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight, the Foundation is now launching prizes in Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy, and Education.

Diamandis is also the co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley based institution teaching graduates and executives about exponentially growing technologies and their potential to address humanity’s grand challenges.

Diamandis recently co-Authored Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think.

Diamandis has founded or co-founded many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector including Zero Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League and Space Adventures. He also counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their business objectives.

Dr. Diamandis attended MIT where he received his degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D.   Diamandis’ personal motto is: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”

Blog Entries by Peter Diamandis

Abundance -- The Future Is Better Than You Think

6 Comments | Posted January 5, 2012 | 00:05:00 (EST)

I was in a coffee shop recently and overheard a young couple discussing whether or not it was morally responsible to bring a child into today's world given all of the global challenges we face.
What's curious about their question and the dark contemporary mood it represents is...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Rocket Engines

Posted February 22, 2011 | 12:17:26 (EST)

The official private race to the moon is on! Recently, my colleagues at the X PRIZE Foundation announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE. Included in this new announcement are eight teams not previously known to the public, including teams...

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Congratulations to the Winners of the $10 Million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE

Posted September 16, 2010 | 15:29:07 (EST)

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For those who have followed the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, today has been a long time coming.  Our vision from the start was to reinvent the paradigm for cars the public can drive. We wanted to ensure that these cars...

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The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Competition is Heating Up

Posted April 13, 2010 | 18:40:45 (EST)

We're approximately six months from awarding up to $10 million in prize money in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, and the competition is heating up. In the beginning, more than 110 teams from 20 nations registered to compete. As of today, there are over 30 teams, representing over 40...

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NASA Embraces American Capitalism and Entrepreneurship

Posted February 1, 2010 | 13:47:57 (EST)

After 30 years of doing business the same way, NASA is finally entering the 21st century by embracing competition, capitalism and entrepreneurship. In NASA's new budget, President Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden have proposed spending billions of dollars to purchase commercial human launch services and invest in game changing...

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Commercial Spaceflight for the Rest of Us -- Congratulations to Virgin Galactic

Posted December 7, 2009 | 20:15:26 (EST)

Today Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites rolled out SpaceShipTwo (SS2) a commercial passenger carrying spaceship derived from the winning ship which captured the $10M Ansari X PRIZE (www.xprize.org) for spaceflight in 2004.  While SpaceShipOne (SS1) carried only one pilot and two passengers, the much larger SS2 will be...

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Most Valuable Real Estate in the Solar System

Posted November 13, 2009 | 14:26:14 (EST)

Today's announcement by NASA of significant water on the south pole of the Moon is scientifically critical, economically astounding and extremely important for the long-term future of humanity. Further, this finding now defines the most "valuable real estate in the solar system."

On October 9th, the LCROSS collision, run by...

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Personal Spaceflight Industry - Reflections on the Five Year Anniversary of the Ansari X PRIZE

Posted October 4, 2009 | 11:43:28 (EST)

By Peter H. Diamandis, X PRIZE Chairman & CEO

Today, October 4th, is the 5 year anniversary of the winning of the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for spaceflight. The most important legacy and meaning of the Ansari X PRIZE on its five year anniversary...

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Five -- Brian Binnie Makes History

Posted October 2, 2009 | 19:35:40 (EST)

Part 5: Brian Binnie Makes History


One of the biggest concerns people have about space travel is whether or not it is safe. Yet, while I was launching into sub-orbit, the safety risk was the last thing on my mind. I was intimately involved in the...

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Gold Rush on the Moon

Posted September 27, 2009 | 17:24:14 (EST)

Last week brought us the exciting official news of water on the Moon. This news is scientifically critical and, more importantly, economically astounding. From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet...

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Four -- Anousheh Ansari and Her $10 Million Purse

Posted September 25, 2009 | 18:09:51 (EST)

Ever since I was a young girl in Iran, I have had a deep curiosity and active imagination which peak whenever I look up at the night sky. I'm fascinated to think about how we got to this place and time, what will come after us and what else...

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Three - Will Whitehorn and Virgin Galactic Want to Bring You to Space

Posted September 17, 2009 | 13:53:17 (EST)

Launching Commercial Space Travel - Part 3

Will Whitehorn and Virgin Galactic Want to Bring You to Space

The '60s and '70s were space eras. NASA had launched the Apollo program (1963 - 1972), and with that, space exploration was alive. We had accomplished a...

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Two -- Dumitru Popescu Builds His Dream Rocket

Posted September 11, 2009 | 16:30:42 (EST)

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of the winning of the Ansari X PRIZE, every week through October 2, read the inspirational stories of the visionaries and heroes who turned their "crazy ideas" into a reality.

Guest Blogger Dumitru Popescu:

In 2000, I recruited a highly educated and skilled Aerospace...

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part One - Finding the New Spirit of St. Louis

Posted September 3, 2009 | 19:35:42 (EST)

Many people look at the X PRIZE Foundation and say, "WOW" - what a great idea." What they may not know is how one person's initial concept evolves to that "WOW" stage of achievement. Here's my journey.

I am a space cadet.

Since the age of 6, I've always...

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"Moon 2.0" Inspiring the Next Generation of Lunar Explorers

Posted July 20, 2009 | 10:47:00 (EST)

Forty years ago this week, the Astronauts of Apollo 11 became the first humans to set foot on the Moon, ushering in a new era of human exploration of the universe. Indeed, even by today's standards, the Apollo program was nothing short of astounding. With an average age in the...
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My In-Depth Audio Interview with Paul Jansen of McKinsey & Company

Posted July 8, 2009 | 16:58:31 (EST)


The McKinsey & Company Report, "And the Winner is...Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes," was released March 3, 2009. The Report concluded that incentive prizes are a unique and...

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Founding of the Singularity University

Posted July 6, 2009 | 18:23:49 (EST)

This week marks the launch of a new University. It's rare to launch a new University these days, so I'm very honored and pleased to have given birth to Singularity University (www.singularityU.org) along with fellow X PRIZE Trustee Ray Kurzweil. Singularity University (or "SU") aims to assemble, educate and...

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Guest Blogger, Keith Ferrazzi: Rev up Your Company's Innovation Engine with Candor

Posted July 2, 2009 | 16:25:21 (EST)

I spoke at the X PRIZE Foundation's incentive2innovate (i2i) Conference last month in NY. But when it was my turn at the podium, my take was that a conference about collaboration and innovation shouldn't be dominated by one way communication - so as usual, I got the audience interacting with...

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Guest Blogger, William Pomerantz: Our Robotic Overlords

Posted May 4, 2009 | 18:46:36 (EST)

Two weeks ago, the lower bowl of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta was filled with screaming fanatics of a very different sort. What is normally hallowed ground for professional football players was transformed for three days into a playground for bright, young students competing in the FIRST...

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Guest Blogger, Dwayne Spradlin: The Effects of Implementing an Open Innovation Culture

Posted May 4, 2009 | 16:30:49 (EST)

Leading up to the incentive2innovate conference on June 8 + 9 at the United Nations in New York, Peter Diamandis and X PRIZE Foundation will feature guest bloggers that will be presenting at i2i. For more information on the i2i program and for registration, visit www.incentive2innovate.com
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