The MissionCreating the MovementAbundance over fear — XPRIZE, Abundance360 and a mission to replace dystopian visions with a hopeful, Star-Trek future.
Level 3 · RadicalRadical Life ExtensionLongevity escape velocity — he went from space to longevity because he "needed an extra fifty years," and backs the startups racing to extend healthy life.
Live Beyond · A Great Mind on the Quest
Peter Diamandis
Founder & Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation Futurist & serial longevity entrepreneur · Los Angeles
Peter H. Diamandis is an engineer, physician, entrepreneur and futurist — and one of the most influential optimists alive. He is founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, whose incentive prizes have driven billions in R&D, and co-founder of Singularity University.
He came to longevity through space. As a young man he built space organisations and helped light the fuse for commercial spaceflight — then realised he "needed an extra fifty years" to see the future he was dreaming of. So he turned to longevity "first and foremost," co-founding Human Longevity, Fountain Life and Lifeforce, and the venture fund BOLD Capital.
An entrepreneur who has started 27 companies, he's the best-selling author of Abundance, Bold, The Future Is Faster Than You Think and Life Force. His message is relentless: the future is faster — and brighter — than we think. "The only day more exciting than today," he says, "is tomorrow."
His mission now is mindset. Convinced that fear of the future is the real brake on progress, he works to replace dystopian, "Mad Max" visions with a hopeful, "Star Trek" one — because if you believe technology is happening for you rather than to you, you'll pick up the agency to build the world you want.
XPRIZE · Founder & ChairmanSingularity University · Co-founderFountain Life · Human LongevityAuthor & futurist
Santa Monica · California
Where we met
A fast walk through Santa Monica
We met Peter in Santa Monica — a fast walk through his neighbourhood (he doesn't do slow) and a conversation in his podcast studio, on longevity escape velocity, abundance, and why the future is faster than we think. Then a selfie at his house, on his way to the next podcast.
Santa Monica
California
A walking interview through his neighbourhood — space, longevity, abundance and the "Star Trek future."
The studio
His podcast set
A filmed conversation on why the future is faster — and brighter — than we think.
At his house
On to the next
A quick selfie before he headed off to record the next podcast — he moves fast.
"The only day more exciting than today is tomorrow — and I get to see a lot of tomorrows."
— Peter Diamandis, in Santa Monica
On the quest
Moments with Peter
On the walkSanta Monica — on the future of longevityIn the studioFilming on his podcast setThe next generation asksAlek in conversation with Peter, Santa MonicaTwo generations & a futuristWalking with Peter, Santa MonicaThe optimist"The only day more exciting than today is tomorrow"
In his words
On the future, faster
"The only day more exciting than today is tomorrow — and I get to see a lot of tomorrows."
Peter Diamandis · Santa Monica
The most valuable drugs in the world will be pro-longevity drugs. We're switching the entire industry from sick care to health care.
Peter Diamandis
If you want to become a billionaire, help a billion people. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.
Peter Diamandis
I'm not worried about artificial intelligence — I'm worried about human stupidity.
Peter Diamandis
We have to show people that their future can be bigger than their past.
Peter Diamandis
In his own words
Straight from the interview
Pulled from our walking interview with Peter in Santa Monica — his science of the future, how he protects his mind, and his message for the next generation.
Peter's view on longevity
He came to longevity from space — realising he "needed an extra fifty years." Now the most valuable medicines will be the ones that keep us young.
"We're going to switch the entire industry from sick care to health care."
Santa Monica · 2025
How Peter guards his mind
He's as careful about what he watches as what he eats — no doom-scrolling, one curated feed, and an AI that filters for what matters.
"I'm as careful about what I listen to and watch as what I eat."
In his own life
His message for the journey
Fear of the future is the real brake — trade the Mad Max story for a Star Trek one, and pick up your agency.
"If you think technology is happening to you and not for you, that puts you in a very negative mindset. Aim for the Star Trek future."
The video interview is coming. Recorded interviews go live after the launch of the film & series Live Beyond.
Selected passages from our walking interview with Peter Diamandis — through Santa Monica, California.
On sick care becoming health care
Marek Piotrowski"Will technology finally push pharma to invest in longevity?"
Peter Diamandis"I don't care what big pharma does. The longevity therapeutics will come from new startups, not the incumbents — the outside always comes in, because they don't know how not to run their old business model. But pharma will be reinvented, because the most valuable drugs in the world will be pro-longevity drugs. We're switching the entire industry from sick care to health care. I stand on stages and tell them: reinvent yourself, or you will not survive."
On longevity for everyone
Peter Diamandis"In every industry, when the technology first comes out it's expensive and doesn't work well, and the wealthy buy it. As the price comes down, it works amazingly well and reaches everybody — the first cell phones cost a fortune in a suitcase; now there are more phones than people. Same with longevity: in the beginning the wealthy do the risky experiments — we'll have the billionaires as the guinea pigs — and then it becomes available to everyone, and to the people they love."
On fear of the future
Peter Diamandis"It makes me sad that people are fearful of the future instead of excited by it — and they're fearful because they don't know what's coming, and because Hollywood has trained them to be. There's no on/off switch to this progress, no velocity knob; it's happening at the maximum rate possible. What's coming is a world that is automagical, where your dreams can become real — where technology gives us extraordinary abundance."
On mindset and agency
Peter Diamandis"If you think this technology is happening to you and not for you, that puts you in a very negative mindset. These technologies can enable you to do extraordinary things — you need curiosity to explore and creativity to create. I think of two futures in superposition: a Star Trek future and a Mad Max future. We need to aim for, and create, the Star Trek future."
On protecting your mind
Peter Diamandis"We pay ten times more attention to negative news than positive — the amygdala that once saved us on the savanna now just keeps us doom-scrolling. So turn off the news. I use one carefully curated feed, and an AI that finds the relevant science. I'm as careful about what I listen to and watch as I am about what I eat."
On problems as opportunities
Aleksander Piotrowski"There are huge problems — but so many people already working on them."
Peter Diamandis"One of the things I teach: if you want to become a billionaire, help a billion people. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. When someone says 'what about this huge problem,' I say — yes! What a fantastic opportunity. Go and solve it; it'll help the world, and you'll create wealth in the process. It's a judo mind-trick of seeing problems as opportunities."
More passages from the full interview will be published here.
Continue the quest
More minds on the quest
Peter plays at the edge of Creating the Movement on the Longevity Map — here are others exploring the same frontier, and the full cast of 100+.
