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Peter H. Diamandis

05/31/25

@ Peter H. Diamandis

The X-Prize Foundation has been around for 30 years, and I started it in 1994 after reading a biography of Charles Lindbergh, who won a $25,000 prize for flying from New York to Paris.

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After Interviewing AI Founders, Here's What You Really Need to Know | EP #175

@ Peter H. Diamandis

After Interviewing AI Founders, Here's What You Really Need to Know | EP #175

05/31/25

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Peter H. Diamandis

05/31/25

@ Peter H. Diamandis

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were early supporters of the X-Prize, which has since launched 30 prizes totaling about $500 million in incentive purses, driving about $10 billion in R&D.

Peter H. Diamandis

05/31/25

@ Peter H. Diamandis

I organized and launched a $10 million prize for the first person who could build a spaceship carrying three adults up 100 kilometers and return safely, which launched the commercial space industry.

Terence Tao

06/15/25

@ Lex Fridman

The Clay Foundation offers a million-dollar prize for solving one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, one of which is the Navier-Stokes problem, and only one of these problems has been solved so far.

Peter H. Diamandis

05/31/25

@ Peter H. Diamandis

We designed a carbon removal prize to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and ocean at scale, which was funded by Elon Musk with a $100 million prize.

Peter H. Diamandis

05/31/25

@ Peter H. Diamandis

I engage with various platforms like my Moonshots podcast and MetaTrends blogs to support initiatives like the XPRIZE and my company, Fountain Life.

Julien Codorniou

06/24/25

@ Stripe

Xavier Niel's contributions over the past 15 years have significantly shaped the vibrant startup ecosystem in France, providing the necessary infrastructure and support for new companies.

Grace Garey

02/24/15

@ Y Combinator

We entered an online voting competition for a $10,000 prize, which was crucial for our funding. After rallying support from friends and family, we won the competition by just 1% in the final hour.

Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

Pitch competitions helped fund the early stages of my company, originally called Impulse, which aimed to show notifications on your wrist.

Blake Scholl

02/15/25

@ Y Combinator

I took a year off after leaving Groupon to explore what I wanted to do next, which allowed me to pursue the idea of supersonic flight without the fear of it being a dead end.