Awards & Recognition
★Fortune's 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' (2014)
★Heinlein Award for space commercialization
★Neil Armstrong Award for aerospace achievement
★Lindbergh Award for space innovation
★Von Braun Award for space exploration
★Arthur C. Clarke Award for space achievement
★Greek Government honored him with 1.2 Euro stamp (2016)
Notable Facts
→Founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation (launched $550M+ in incentive competitions)
→Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University
→Founded 25+ companies across space, longevity, AI, and venture capital
→4x New York Times bestselling author (Abundance, Bold, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Life Force)
→M.D. from Harvard Medical School, degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from MIT
→Co-founder of two $500M+ venture funds: BOLD Capital Partners and Link-xpv
→Board of XPRIZE includes Elon Musk, Larry Page, James Cameron, Ray Kurzweil
→Host of MOONSHOTS podcast with 1M+ listeners per episode
→Co-founder of companies like Zero Gravity Corporation, Planetary Resources, Fountain Life