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my name is Peter Diamandis i'm the founder executive chairman of the XPrize foundation and the founder detective chairman of singularity University I got excited about opening up space since my childhood in the Apollo program and I read this book called the spirit of st. Louis that chronicles Lindbergh's journey in New York to Paris and said a prize can open up aviation may be a prize can open up space and so I came up with this ten million dollar prize and just recently an amazing author as chronicled the whole XPrize story in this in this book how to make a spaceship and it tells my journey and I'm hoping that this book can inspire the next generation of moon shots the way Lindbergh's book inspired me in this book you'll meet Jeff Bezos you'll need Paul Allen you'll meet Richard Branson you'll meet the teams competing for this ten million dollar prize and you'll see me announcing a 10 million dollar prize without having the 10 million and then going making a hundred and fifty pitches to every CEO out there and being told no over and over and over again until I finally meet the Ansari family long story but one of technology and regulatory hurdles and financing hurdles really making this dream of spaceflight possible on the heels the XPrize being one we built an extraordinary board from larry page 2 james cameron Elon Musk is funded a 15 million dollar global learning XPrize we have a 10 million dollar qualcomm tricorder xprize for reinventing healthcare and we're really focused on on launching X prizes that will take on the world's biggest problems we launched 120 million dollars worth of prizes another 100 million are in development it's really about changing the world with entrepreneur setting big goals you