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Peter Diamandis

Peter H. Diamandis (/ˌdiːəˈmændɪs/; born May 20, 1961) is a Greek American engineer, physician,[1] and entrepreneur best known for being founder and chairman of the , cofounder and executive chairman of and coauthor of The Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is former CEO and cofounder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Ltd., founder and chairman of the Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University, cofounder of , cofounder of Celularity, founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, vice chairman and cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc.[2]

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Early life Born May 20, 1961 Career The Bronx, New York International Space University City, New York, United International MicroSpace, Inc. States Constellation Communications Nationality Greek American X PRIZE Foundation Education Massachusetts Zero Gravity Corporation Institute of Technology Angel Technologies Corporation Harvard Medical Space Adventures, Ltd. School BlastOff! Corporation Occupation Entrepreneur Employer X Prize Foundation Singularity University Planetary Resources Inc. Known for Personal spaceflight Human Longevity Inc. industry Celularity Title Chairman Books Website diamandis.com (http:// diamandis.com/) Additional notable achievements Personal life Notes External links Videos

Early life Diamandis was born in The Bronx, New York.[3] His parents, both Greek immigrants, were in the medical business. His father was a physician. From a very early age, Diamandis expressed a keen interest in .[4] At age 8, he began giving lectures on space to his family and friends.[4] At age 12, Diamandis won first place in the Estes Rocket Design Competition for building a launch system able to simultaneously launch three .[5]

After graduating from Great Neck North High School in 1979, Diamandis attended 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, Diamandis cofounded Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.[6]

Diamandis graduated from MIT in 1983[7] with a B.S. in molecular genetics.[8][9][10] He then entered Harvard Medical School to pursue his M.D. 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.[5]

During his last year of medical school in 1989, Diamandis was acting as managing director of the International Space University and CEO of International Micro Space, a microsatellite launch company.[11]

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 , the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory and MIT's Whitehead Biomedical Institute.[12] After completing his M.S. at MIT, Diamandis returned to Harvard completing his M.D.[11]

Career

Diamandis has participated on the boards of several companies throughout his career, including Hyperloop [13] and Cogswell Polytechnical College.[14] He has also won several awards in his field, including Economist "No Boundaries" Innovator of the Year, [15] the Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership,[16] the World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Counsel, and [17] the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation,[18] among others.

International Space University

In 1987, during his third year of medical school, Diamandis cofounded International Space University with Todd Hawley, Walter Anderson and Robert Richards.[19] Diamandis served as the managing director and chief operating officer of the university until 1989. Today, ISU offers a Space Studies program[20] and two accredited Master of Space Studies degrees.[21] It has grown into a $30 million university campus headquartered in Strasbourg, France.

International MicroSpace, Inc.

Diamandis cofounded Microsat Launch Systems, later renamed International MicroSpace Inc.,[22] in 1989 during his fourth year of medical school and served as the company's CEO. IMI designed a small launcher called Orbital Express for taking 100-kg payloads to low-Earth orbit, collaborating with Bristol Aerospace for the manufacture.[22] The company won a $100 million SDIO contract for one launch plus nine options and was sold to CTA Inc of Rockville, MD in 1993 for $250,000.[22] Diamandis joined CTA for one year as VP of Commercial Space Programs post-acquisition.[23] Constellation Communications

In 1991, Diamandis founded Constellation Communications, Inc., one of five low-Earth orbit satellite constellations for voice telephony. The company was funded to deploy an equatorial ring of 10 satellites to provide communications primarily to Brazil and Indonesia. Constellation was sold to E-Systems and Orbital; Diamandis remained director until 1993.[24]

X PRIZE Foundation

In 1994, Diamandis founded the X PRIZE Foundation after the failure of International MicroSpace, Inc[1] and reading 's The Spirit of St. Louis.[19][25] He serves as chairman and CEO of the foundation. X PRIZE was created to fund and operate a $10 million incentive competition intended to inspire a new generation of private passenger-carrying spaceships. The prize was announced on May 18, 1996 in St. Louis, MO without any purse money or any teams.[26] The prize was ultimately funded through an insurance policy underwritten by the Anousheh and Hamid Ansari Family and renamed the in their honor.

The $10 million competition attracted 26 teams from seven countries as teams and was won on October 4, 2004 by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, a team run by famed aviation designer and funded by Microsoft cofounder . The winning vehicle, SpaceShipOne, was piloted to space twice within two weeks to win the competition. The first flight was made on September 29, 2004, piloted by , and the winning, second flight was made on October 4, 2004, by pilot . SpaceShipOne was the world's first non-government piloted spacecraft[27] and is now hanging in the National Air and Space Museum adjacent to the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft.[6]

In January 2005, the X PRIZE Foundation Board of Trustees expanded the focus of the X PRIZE to address four different group areas: Exploration (oceans and space), Life Sciences, Energy and Environment, and Education and Global Development.[28]

Since inception, the foundation has launched the $10M Ansari X PRIZE (awarded),[29] the $10M (awarded), the $10M (in progress), the $30M Lunar X PRIZE (in progress), the $10M Qualcomm ,[30] the $2M (awarded), the $1.4M Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge (awarded),[31] and the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE.[32] In May 2012, the Robin Hood Foundation announced its plans to partner with the X PRIZE Foundation for several New York-based challenges targeted at eradicating poverty.[33]

The X PRIZE Foundation has a staff of approximately 50 individuals and is headquartered in Culver City, California. Its board of trustees includes , , , , Ratan Tata, , Jim Gianopulos, Naveen Jain, , Will Wright and .[34]

Zero Gravity Corporation

In 1994, Diamandis cofounded ZERO-G with Byron Lichtenberg and Ray Cronise. The space entertainment company offers weightless experiences aboard its FAA-certified Boeing 727 aircraft and provides NASA with parabolic flight services for research, education and training.[35] The company has flown over 10,000 customers.

In 2007, physicist experienced eight rounds of weightlessness on a ZERO-G flight. Diamandis said that the successful outcome of that flight was proof that "everyone can participate in this type of weightless experience."[36] He would recount the experience of taking Dr. Hawking into the upper atmosphere at TED2008.[37]

Angel Technologies Corporation

Between 1995 and 1999, Diamandis was the president of Angel Technologies Corporation, a commercial communications company that develops wireless broadband communications networks.[38]

Space Adventures, Ltd.

Founded in 1998, Space Adventures is a company that has flown eight private customer missions to the International Space Station since 2001.[39] Diamandis is the cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures.[40]

BlastOff! Corporation

Between 2000 and 2001, Diamandis was the CEO of BlastOff! Corporation, which proposed to fly a private rover mission to land on the as a mix of entertainment, Internet and space.[41] The company lost funding and ceased business in 2001.

Rocket Racing League

In 2005, Diamandis cofounded the Rocket Racing League.[42] Developed as a cross between IndyCar racing and rockets, it envisioned enabling the public to enjoy speed, rockets and competitive spirits. Diamandis was the chairman of RRL[43][44] until it ceased business.[45]

Singularity University

In 2008, alongside American author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, Diamandis cofounded Singularity University (SU). Today Diamandis serves as the university's cofounder and executive chairman.[46] SU is an interdisciplinary university with the mission to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity's grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, SU hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet's most pressing challenges. SU is based on the NASA Ames campus in and supported by a number of corporate founders and partners including , Cisco, Nokia, Kauffman Foundation and ePlanet Ventures.[47] The university runs a 10-week Graduate Studies Program,[48] a seven-day Executive Program[49] and a five-day Exponential Medicine conference.[50]

Planetary Resources Inc.

In April 2012, Diamandis cofounded Planetary Resources Inc., an organization dedicated to the identification, remote sensing and prospecting of near-Earth approaching asteroids, with Eric Anderson.[51][52] He has also served on the company's board.[53] and . Following financial troubles, it was announced in October 2018 that the company's human assets were purchased by the blockchain software technology company ConsenSys, Inc.[54] Human Longevity Inc.

In March 2014, Diamandis cofounded Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan,[55] with Craig Venter and Robert Hariri.[56] He also has supported SENS Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to treat and cure the diseases of aging by repairing the underlying damage caused by aging.[57] After internal disputes about management, Venter left Human Longevity to return to the Venter Institute.

Celularity

In February 2018, Diamandis launched Celularity, a biotechnology company productizing allogeneic cells and tissues derived from the postpartum placenta.[58]

Books

In 2012, alongside , Diamandis coauthored Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think.[59] The nonfiction work discusses the potential for exponential technology and three other emerging market forces to significantly raise global standards of living within the next 25 years.

Abundance was well-received;[60] it was #2 on Best Seller list[61] and remained on the list for nine weeks. It was #1 on the non-fiction bestseller lists of [62] and Barnes and Noble.[63]

At the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative, former US president Bill Clinton recommended Abundance to readers as an antidote to negative news.

In 2015, again alongside of Steven Kotler, Diamandis coauthored another New York Times best selling book, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World.[64] This nonfiction book provides analysis and instruction for entrepreneurs interested in learning about exponential technologies, moon-shot thinking and crowdsourcing.[1]

Additional notable achievements

Diamandis also:

Served as CEO of Desktop.tv, a spin-off company from BlastOff! designed to provide a global peer-to-peer television network for broadcasting unique content to the desktop.[65] Served as chairman of Starport.com, an Internet channel for space exploration for kids of all ages.[11] The site represents over 20 astronauts and features space heroes, missions and simulations. Sold to Space.com. Cofounded and served as director of the Space Generation Foundation, a nonprofit organization established in 1985 to create, in all people born since the advent of the Space Age on October 4, 1957, a sense of identity and awareness that they are born as members of a space-faring race. The foundation supports numerous educational and research projects.[66] Founded SpaceFair in 1983. SpaceFair is a national space conference that was hosted by MIT in 1983, 1985 and 1987.[67] Was a key subject in the 2007 documentary film, Orphans of Apollo.[68] Is a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company, Xconomy.[69] Personal life

Diamandis is married to Kristen Hladecek,[70] having proposed in 2004.[71] They have twin boys born c.2012.[72]

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External links

Official website (http://www.diamandis.com/) X PRIZE Foundation website (http://www.xprize.org/) Testimony by Peter Diamandis to U.S. House (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid= 13396)

Videos

Peter Diamandis (https://www.ted.com/speakers/peter_diamandis) at TED Peter Diamandis: Our next giant leap (TEDGlobal 2005) (http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_di amandis_on_our_next_giant_leap) Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight (TED2008) (http://www.ted.com/talks/pet er_diamandis_on_stephen_hawking_in_zero_g) Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future (TED2012) (http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_dia mandis_abundance_is_our_future) MIT Video: Peter Diamandis talks about the X PRIZE and future of space travel (https://web.ar chive.org/web/20060913222925/http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/331/) Open SSP08 Lecture: Peter Diamandis talks about the X PRIZE, Zero gravity, Rocket Race League (http://rpod.ru/personal/storage/00/00/00/31/38/x_prize.m4a?e88cf29bf0c3e1bd427fed b1149644677a2fd3da4c21ecdf4d49f7f3592aa099/) SSP08 podcast (http://ssp08.rpod.ru/) Perimeter Institute: Peter Diamandis' lecture at the Quantum to Cosmos festival (https://web.ar chive.org/web/20091020150118/http://www.q2cfestival.com/play.php?lecture_id=8029) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Diamandis&oldid=961558917"

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