Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.