SPECIAL: Peter Diamandis on the Longevity Opportunity, Bitcoin’s Bull Case and Musk vs. Bezos

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Trung Phan** (0:36)
So, what is the superpower for Elon Musk?

**Peter Diamandis** (0:42)
First principle thinking. You can look at a system and say from first principles, this should be possible.

**Trung Phan** (1:03)
So, again, just want to make an introduction. I'm Trung Phan, lead writer for The Hustle. And we're here with Peter Diamandis.
Peter, I want to give a very brief intro here, just for our audience. A lot of entrepreneurs, a very brief for our audience, a lot of entrepreneurs and investors.
But then I'll kind of pass it to you to, for you to break down who Peter Diamandis is, because you'll obviously do better than me. But so, you know, you went to MIT, where you studied biology, you got a Harvard Medical degree.
At the same time, while you're studying medicine, you started a space company, satellite, I believe, micro satellites. And you basically kind of gone this route since where you've been involved in the cutting edge of science and technology. You founded over 20 companies in the human longevity space, in the space space. And you also very famously known for the XPRIZE, which is where you solve the world's grandest challenge with incentive prize competitions. It started with the Ansari $10 million space prize, which that was awarded, I believe, 10 years after you started the prize from, I believe, 1997 to 2006 And that technology was later licensed by Vernejo Galactic and your friend, Richard Branson. And this year was a very big milestone year for that, when he took that first flight. And now you've spent a lot of your time in the past few years, I believe, longevity is a space you're very interested in. And I would like, I guess, from here to pass the baton off to you. With that kind of context, what is Peter Diamandis doing today in 2021? And what is most important to you?

**Peter Diamandis** (2:42)
Oh my God.
I think what's most important to me is helping entrepreneurs make a bigger impact on the planet. When I think about the tools we have as entrepreneurs, as executives, as leaders, it's never been more powerful than today. And I think that entrepreneurs are the means by which we can address the world's biggest problems and uplift every man, woman and child on the planet. And so that's a driving force for me. I teach and I talk about massively or massive transformative purposes. And I help a lot of entrepreneurs come up with their purpose, their passion, their MTP. And mine is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling and abundant future for humanity. So I think about that a lot.
And right now I'm working on my fourth, fifth and sixth book.
I have a book with Tony Robbins called Life Force. They'll be coming out in February, which is looking at all of the breakthroughs that are adding decades onto your life. I've got a book with another friend, Salim Ismail, called Exponential Organizations 2, that looks at a new species of company that exists today. These are companies that are performing by tenfold. They're competition. And then, just because abundance, as a book, was so important to me, we're approaching a 10-year anniversary, and I'm gonna do a abundance revisited, because so much of the case for abundance is so much stronger, and there is a few key places that it's weak and we need to focus attention. So that's what the book will be about. I'm a dad of two 10-year-old boys. I have a half a billion dollar venture fund, BOLD Capital Partners.
I have a few, four companies in the healthcare space. I've got a new venture called Future Loop we can talk about, which is, you know, how do you get the news that actually is meaningful to you versus the dystopian negative news out there? And I'm just, I'm a kid having fun following my dreams.