Peter is a serial entrepreneur, futurist, technologist, New York Times Bestselling Author, and the founder of over 25 companies. Fortune magazine has named Peter ‘one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’. He is the Founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation which has launched over $400 million of incentive competitions, driving more than $4 billion in R&D (most recently launching the $100 million Gigaton Carbon XPRIZE funded by Elon Musk to combat climate change). Peter’s venture fund, BOLD Capital Partners is deploying $600M+ into exponential technologies and health-biotech. Diamandis has written six books including four New York Times bestsellers, and his life’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling and abundant future for humanity. Diamandis received his B.S. and M.S. from MIT and his MD from Harvard Medical School.