
Peter Diamandis (X PRIZE Foundation) - Rewarding Sky-High Innovation
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
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Space Adventures
The idea for space adventures came from a friend of mine, Mike McDowell. The Russians had become a capitalist society and the great Soviet assets were now being made available. And we started a company to do that. Richard Gariot who you heard of Ultima Online, the video game. He is now training in Russia and Star City as our sixth private customer. Who are the people that went up before? Dennis Tito runs the Wilshire Associates. We had Mark Shuttleworth for South African. Greg Olson from the US,. Anushan Sarri, who funded the Anushari X Prize, was our fourth. Charles Simone, who wrote Word and Excel, was our fifth.
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