Agreed.  And also the way he generates ideas is emblematic of his wild imagination.  One part of the talk that I particularly enjoyed was this discussion of how he originates his start-up ideas.  In particular the idea about how to start XPrize came to him as he was reading a book about the crossing of the Atlantic for a prize.  At the same time, what is remarkable is not that these ideas come to him but that he has the skills to turn such great ideas into great companies.

Nothing inspires us more than success against great odds. People like Peter Diamandis are  living example of this. His innovative thinking has made him somebody who thinks outside the box and enables great revolutionary change. He has created a marketplace where the financial model is based on prizes. It’s a model that may not work in across the board. But this works well for challenges where the odds are stacked against you and a conventional VC would see no justification to fund you.  Peter’s success and passion drive home the message to never give up.  To see him as the incubator for not one, but so many ideas that border on science fiction is inspiration indeed.

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I agree, his ability to execute on his dreams and passions was very inspirational.  His motto that "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" not only embodies the entrepreneurial spirit, but also the inventor's spirit.  I believe that this is particularly true in the tech industry where the future is really defined by the inventive people who engineer new products.

I also agree. IT is pretty amazing and inspirational the Peter Diamond has had the imagination to think up all these things and the courage to make them happen in the face of logic and reasonability. I wold expect he has met so many people that have told him that these things arent possible but kept his dreams alive. This is remarkable!

The inspirational messages that Peter Diamandis was able to instill on us ultimately trace back to his passion, as many have noted. It is remarkable how he has "incentivized innovation” and I found it interesting that he attributes his motivation to the following motto—what does the public think is impossible, until it is done? I truly enjoyed sitting in the audience for this talk, and I took the best piece of advice to be “go back to what you loved when you were a kid.” Indeed, if you are passionate about something you will genuinely love what you are doing.

Yes, I believe passion is very important. Peter Diamondis is a very good example of how passion helps people successful, which is same to all these heroes in silicon valley. Sometimes the ideas even seems to be ridiculous could be turned to be a really great one. For example, Google. Many people think Yahoo is already there, why we need Google.