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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Tracking the future of technology and how it impacts humanity. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is a founder, investor, advisor, and best-selling author. Join Peter on his mission to uplift humanity through technology. Follow Peter on X - https://x.com/PeterDiamandis

Website ↗ Last published 31 October 2026 313 posts collected by Sputnik

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“I did some calculations, and I saw that in London or New York, there's about 800,000 trips a day. The amount of cyber cabs you need to completely replace all those Uber and black taxi and yellow taxi trips is 40,000. … So if Elon puts 40,000 cyber cabs in Austin and New York and London, he has the market because you're not going to introduce a marginal Waymo into that market, are you?” — Emad Mostaque, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Emad Mostaque · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The peer review process has held up science, and it's terrible and awful. … has been one of the worst things we have for science, which should be an iterative open process where we explore and the marketplace of ideas wins. … now we all have AIs to be able to check these things and we should reward putting out ideas that have merit and we should also reward replication of ideas … I hope it kills the peer review process and we all become peers.” — Emad Mostaque, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Emad Mostaque · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“There's still not a single MBA program in the world that can teach you how to build Uber. Every single MBA program teaches how to build a 20th century organization.” — Salim Ismail, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Salim Ismail · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Necessity is the mother of invention. They didn't have the big chips. They didn't have the compute. So they optimized for smaller or RAM-intensive models when RAM was cheap. … And the biggest thing actually is that they don't do margins. So the Anthropic S1 was just interesting because they have huge margins, like 80%. And so did everyone else. And we all thought they were running at cost. In fact, they weren't.” — Emad Mostaque, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Emad Mostaque · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I've said previously on this podcast, Anthropic should not be a public company. If you take what they say seriously, it should not be a public company. And looking at their financials, it doubles down on that. They have over 100 billion in cash. They are able to raise another 100 billion in private markets in cash. Now is the ideal time for them to do so. But I think they won't give a damn about the share price.” — Emad Mostaque, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Emad Mostaque · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'm the least invested I've ever been over like the last 15 years. … I'm honestly the most confused I've ever been. And then I compare that to the surety that so many other people have in the market right now. And it just seems like late cycle, late stage behavior.” — Chamath Palihapitiya, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Chamath Palihapitiya · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I do think that we have achieved AGI. It cannot diffuse. And the reason it cannot diffuse has nothing to do with the technology. It has everything to do with the buildup. And until you actually build it out so everybody can feel it or a plurality of human beings can feel it, it's just something that exists in a lab.” — Chamath Palihapitiya, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Chamath Palihapitiya · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It took 100 years for us to absorb the printing press, and it was the most violent 100 years in the history of humanity. … We have 20 of those hitting us in the same time. AI is a Gutenberg moment. Blockchain is a Gutenberg moment. Life extension is a Gutenberg moment.” — Salim Ismail, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Salim Ismail · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you're Anthropic or if you're the OpenAI Foundation, you'll throw some of your token budget at safety, sure, maybe 10 to 20% at AI alignment efforts. And then you'll throw a few percent at curing all disease as a marketing effort to ensure that you continue to have social permission to focus on recursive self-improvement. And that's where all the value is.” — Alexander Wissner-Gross, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Alexander Wissner-Gross · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If someone came to you and said, I want to pitch you my company, are you ready for my pitch? We use electricity. You would think I was nuts. … That's an implementation detail. What are you doing? I feel the same way about AI. I actually try to say AI as little as possible.” — Astro Teller, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Astro Teller · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The cost for a false positive where we believe it's a moonshot, we run it for many years, and then it turns out not to be is very high, many tens of millions of dollars potentially. The cost of a false negative where it actually is a moonshot, but I rejected it, is zero. … It costs us nothing to say no.” — Astro Teller, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Astro Teller · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Taking moonshots is really, really easy. It's laughably easy. If you don't care about efficiency, you just find some super energetic people who are sort of delusionally optimistic, pour a bunch of money on them, you will absolutely get some moonshots. It's just not a very good return on investment.” — Astro Teller, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Astro Teller · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis is hosted by Peter Diamandis , Salim Ismail , Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross .

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