The Future of Vision XPRIZE, the investing session, and the Moonshot engineers on stage

And for me, the most important thing is the lessons that everyone in the audience is going to learn. Um, we have an incredible group of judges who are going to be uh, you know, crowning the winner. Um, and uh so that's one of them.

The second XPRIZE is the Future of Vision XPRIZE. You know, just think about all the technologies that Star Trek inspired, all of the engineers, all of the scientists — like Alex, like Emad, Dave, Salim, myself. Uh, and so this is a competition for a future version of XPRIZE, a film that shows a hopeful, compelling vision of the future. We had over 5,000 uh teams registered for this. Uh, I'm in the, you know, the review right now. We've narrowed it down to 25. We're going to be narrowing it down to 10 and finally five on stage, uh, showing their three-minute film trailer. And then we're going to make the winner's movie. We might make a bunch of the winners' movies. I mean, they're amazing. Uh, they're amazing trailers.

Uh, we're going to have uh Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the judges there. Uh, Neal Stephenson, an incredible science fiction author. Uh, Rod Roddenberry. Uh, Mira Lane from Google. Uh, that's going to be extraordinary as well, right? Creating a new generation of positive storytelling.

I mean, the group of breakthrough thinkers you have there is unbelievable. And so the opportunity to meet all those is unreal.

I'm super excited about the AI and investing section that I'll be running, because uh, you know, we're coming into the most amazing investment cycle in the history of the world. You know, we're already maybe in the third inning of a nine-inning game. Uh, and a lot of people are frozen. They're just stuck, you know, like, well, if AI is going to do everything, you know, what could I invest in that could possibly matter? But there's some really, really fertile themes around robotics, around biotech, around data center buildout, a whole bunch of other areas. I just can't wait to go through it all. But we're really in a sweet spot right now.

Again, this is a moment in time, right? Like I said earlier, we're no longer the smartest things on the planet. Things are only going to accelerate, and by the time we get to Moonshots, it's a real chance to be amongst the people that see that. Like, I think, think about the billions of people on Earth — like, just the listeners on this podcast are already ahead in thinking about that. And the people who turn up to this Moonshots gathering are the people who genuinely believe that, and I don't think you'll ever have another moment like that.

This is going to be — this is our inaugural event, and in success we'll do it year on year. Uh, but this is sort of the largest gathering of optimists as well. Uh, one of the things we're doing — we're going to be having a live uh recording of Moonshots there uh with all five of us as the mates, and then we're going to be uh interviewing three incredible moonshot engineers. Palmer Luckey, right, the creator of Oculus and the creator of Anduril. Um, we're going to be diving into Palmer's brain, how he thinks about entrepreneurship, and he's one of the most brilliant thinkers I've met. Uh, Ben Lamm, the CEO of Colossal — all right, that is bringing back extinct species, but beyond that, he's building companies at the intersection of AI and synthetic biology, building living products. And then Astro Teller, the captain of moonshots, uh, who's going to, you know, share with you how do you build a moonshot company.

And so my hope for everybody attending is that you're going to walk away massively inspired on, you know, what your massive transformative purpose is and what your moonshot is and how to go after it. Um, and of course at night, Alex, you're going to be uh bearing all your truths, right?