Occupation: Physician Birth: May 20, 1961
A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago..
Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely ….
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars..
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore..
The first trillionaire can be made in space..
Technology is a resource-liberating force!.
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….
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable..
I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's goin….
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..
If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either….
You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three o….
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires….
During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally ge….
I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about t….
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species..
Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned tha….
More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' hav….
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses..
We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest pro….
Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're makin….