Moonshots

Peter Diamandis × Salim Ismail × Dave Blundin × Alexander Wissner-Gross

Future Vision X Prize turned optimistic-future storytelling into a scaled creator funnel: more than 5,000 participants, over 2,500 submissions, 50 scripts, and five finalists.Peter Diamandis cited Claude’s sandbox behavior to argue that media trains children and AI models; whether constructive narratives can redirect engineering and model behavior remains unresolved, with science still answerable to nature.

Peter Diamandis × Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson turned overlooked urban demand into a repeatable investment thesis, using Magic Johnson Theatres’ top-10 performance to win 125 Starbucks stores across 40 markets and later applying the model to Burger King, real estate, and sports.His double bottom line pairs profit with jobs, supplier opportunities, and community impact, while disciplined exits and turnarounds at the Dodgers and Commanders show the operating mechanism; public-health access remains a personal and policy priority after 33 years managing HIV.

Travis Kalanick × Peter Diamandis

Kalanick’s unifying thesis is to make the physical world behave like a computer by “treating atoms like bits.”Manufacturing manipulates atoms, real estate stores them, and logistics moves them; Uber digitized the network layer, while cloud kitchens and “atoms AI” extend the thesis into production, property, robotics, and humanoids.Unlike attention businesses that take time…