Naveen Jain | Moon Express

I'm really fired up for tonight this is someone that I'm just meeting but I've heard about for a long time and again this course is more about mindset than skillset right we we ask people how they did it but we're more interested in the why you know how do you set audacious goals how do you align your behavior and your thoughts and your actions and your self-talk with that and so on the more I read about Naveen the more excited I was like this is perfect for our class Naveen Jane is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world's largest challenges through innovation he dreams big dreams and draws people's draws people to his efforts through the strength of his vision and his personality he specializes in moon shots figuratively and literally Naveen emigrated from India and is founded at least seven companies including InfoSpace and Telus moon express and volume he also serves on the boards of the XPrize Foundation and singularity University let's explore how to dream big and take action please welcome Naveen Jane Ivy thank you sir have a seat welcome welcome all right great to have you here is this your first time talking at USC or beam in here before I don't think I've been in u.s. yeah then most of most other colleges well they're something I see the best one for the last well this is this isn't the last one that Specter but we're glad you're here thank you and we do think USC is a pretty special place right now to be an entrepreneur I'm partial to Stanford just my two kids are there that's okay we love them too and in fact probably as we speak our basketball teams probably beating them in the galen's oh let's hope let's hope we play tonight we play tonight always great rival for us but welcome to USC are you local or in Northern California actually I'm in Seattle Oh Seattle yeah great city great I'll be there I'll be there on February 12 when you look me in the eye oh you and I'm going up there for a charitable event with Will Ferrell and Pete Carroll so I'll be fun I wasn't a name drop it's just like right but it's great to have you here and as I mentioned this course is about about mindset it's called the entrepreneur mindset taking the leap and and you more than anyone that sort of typifies that so let's let's just start there before we dive into your your upbringing and family life let's talk about mindset when you start determining later evaluating an opportunity whether it's a worthy challenge for you what do you look for the main thing is before you start something assume that it is going to be successful you so you start something and says god forbid it actually works right then what would it mean is it going to move the needle is it going to change the lives of a billion people someday if I'm actually successful in doing what I'm doing and if it doesn't your life is worth a lot more don't waste your time and doing something that is not going to move the needle on the universe right so find something that you're truly passionate about and how do you know you know people always say I don't know what my passion is you know what do I do and I think it's really easy to find your true passion think about what is it that you're willing to die for and then live for it and all other way of thinking about that is if you had everything that you want in your life the billions of dollars you wanted the amazing family and everything that you care about what would you do and if you do that today you will get everything that you always wanted this is a process where you can't focus on the end goal you have to learn to enjoy that journey and the only way you're gonna enjoy that journey is to actually be sup doing something that means a lot it is a tough road anytime you start something don't let someone tell you it is going to be easy there is very few overnight successes in fact most overnight success as David probably touched probably take about ten years right these these overnight successes are years and years of hard work and and also know that during that time you're gonna see plenty of ups and downs so I really you know David and I was talking about it offline and I say you know life of an entrepreneur is really like a heartbeat it goes up and down when it's flat you're dead so you never want a smooth line if things are going really good for you you are dead you already are dead you just don't know yet like when it's going up and down is really what what really differentiates between a good entrepreneur and a great entrepreneur when things are really really bad and you think that you know nothing is gonna life is gonna ever work I am just about to give up just know if you survive through that winter the next beat is up and when you are on the top of the game don't get too cocky you know the winter is coming right right so point is never ever get too comfortable where you are and never get too depressed when the things are bad it's all the cycle and and you know the ups and downs like look there are a lot of very successful people coming through here and we're gonna get people younger that are on the way up and we'll have people like a lot of people like to talk about their successes we're gonna talk about failures too and setbacks and learning because you know there really is no success without some failure and [Applause] unli I don't need it that's perfect and so I don't need it trust oh yeah trust me I did my homework uh so but there is no success without failure and as he said the ups and downs yeah there's no such thing as going undefeated as an entrepreneurial II is what is a failure and as an entrepreneur do you actually fail right so my my thought process goes like this you as an entrepreneur should be dreaming so big that people think you're absolutely freaking crazy right when you tell someone what you are about to be doing and if they don't think it's a crazy idea you're not thinking big enough right so when people ask me what would you be doing and I say I'm going to mine the moon yes that's a crazy idea you know you're on to something and then you are actually done the moon shot what do you do next for an encore you do another moon shot and what do you do in a moon shot my second Muench I'm gonna talk about it just simply just give you an idea how crazy can you be I'm gonna create a world where unless could be a matter of choice not a matter of bad luck people will only be sick because they want to be sick not because they have to be sick people said Jessica wants the research actually every day people make that choice you tell people don't eat that french fries it's not good for you make a choice the point is I can only tell you what is good for you and it's not about healthy diet so just I'm going to tell you like smoking is a pretty good example everyone knows it's written in a bold letter if smoking is bad for you if you smoke you're gonna get a cancer you take a cigarette out and you smoke that's the choice you make right however if you tell is very interesting how you know life works people don't want good health people want good life they think is smoking gives them a good life they don't care for good health right you tell them you're gonna have a cancer if you smoke they don't care you tell them you become important when you smoke they take the cigarette and you snuff it out coming back to it the failure only happens when you give up everything else is just a pivot an idea that you have may or may not work and every idea that does not work is simply a stepping stone to a different idea and a bigger idea and a better idea so that human beings fail and entrepreneurs pivot and let's I want to step back to you know you started talking about passion and how you sort of engage yourself but we want to I want to give them a framework in even a process not that there's a magic formula but let's start with you know when you have an idea or a concept in Anna beans case saying you know you want to set things so audaciously that people say you're crazy there's a what there's a German philosopher Schopenhauer says the three phases of truth first its ridiculed the second phase it's violently opposed and the third is it's accepted as self-evident yes and that's sort of the way things go when people take outlandish goals but let's start with you know that when you ask yourself questions and you start setting your goals or your dreams assignments cynic who came and spoke you know he has a book called start with why and you talk about purpose and meaning and you have to find something that moves you through all the ups and downs and heartbeats and things like that and it has to be why and the first thing that will happen when someone says I want to mine the moon and I want to cure all disease I want to start a new social platform you name it people will say how how are you gonna do that you don't have the experience you don't have the money you don't have the smarts you don't have the team everybody wants to defeat you with how and if you start asking yourself how questions right out of the gate you're gonna walk your goals backwards you're they're not gonna be big enough for you and if you know every step along the way in your in your goals what what does that mean if I know every step along the way what does that mean so I think so first of all I mean I have personally in a great example and I can tell you that once you know something and you are really good and you become an expert you're more or less useless at that point right because the people who actually know things they can only improve it incrementally they can make it better by 10% or 15% so if you know how then you can make it better by 10% of 15% if you want to change something 10 times or hundred times you have to come from complete as a non expert you can't have any background in that industry the reason if you become an expert the only way to become an expert to have a foundational knowledge that you take it for granted because if you challenge it you're no longer an expert so you have to say I don't know anything about it and that's the reason I'm going to be the most dangerous person that industry has ever seen so not knowing something is the biggest strength you have I started moon Express I have no idea about rocket science and I can tell you about how that went about when I started healthcare I had absolutely no idea about healthcare and today every healthcare company knows I am one of the most dangerous guys they have or seen because they have no idea because I'm unpredictable if they have no idea where I'm gonna go next right what am I going to change next how am I going to disrupt that next they never thought healthcare could be delivered directly to consumer because that's not something they ever thought some crazy person would do right and that's what the crazy people do now coming back to the processes even though your dreams are massive you're dreaming so audacious thing you have no idea how to achieve them what you do is you take a slice at a time you say this is what I'm going to do first and when that works I'm going to take the next slice so you keep slicing the thing out and you can start to build the whole dream amazing things also is when you're trying to do something so audacious that is going to actually move the humanity forward amazing things happen the people around the world will come together to help you get that done when you tell someone I'm going to build an iPhone app that's going to help you find a roommate that's a great idea go do it good luck they don't care when you tell someone what if we can together can create a world where no one ever has to be sick everyone start to say I want to be part of that goal and I can tell you that the day I announced that we'd have no idea what I was going to do I said we are gonna make illness optional and I went on CNBC I was talking about a moonshot and I say my next moonshot is I'm gonna make illness as an option where people don't have to be sick as a matter of choice they can only be there is no bad luck here they'd only be saved because they made a choice to be sick amazing things happen I got a call from the head of the IBM Watson Research he said I've been working on AI to look at all the biological data I want to come and help you because that's the problem I've been plenty successful in life I want to do something that's really significant second call I got was this woman called dr. Helen Massie a PhD in microbiology she's an MD functional medicine doctor working for craig Venter on human longevity she said I've been working on this whole problem of human longevity what's the point living longer if people are going to be sick anyway let me come and help you solve this problem of sickness I can do that the third interesting thing was our that Los Alamos National Lab you know what Los Alamos National Lab is famous for anyone here performing bomb Department of Energy no atomic bomb that's where they do they build the atomic bomb it's used is called Manhattan Project wasn't done in Manhattan it was done in Los Alamos New Mexico interesting thing is these guys are doing some of the hard core national security work they were working on a bio defense technology and imagine what the bio defense technology looks like they wanted to figure out if they're a bad actor were to get hold of something crazy like biological things how would we ever know what's making us sick so they spent billions of dollars trying to figure out if something happened how can we very quickly find out what is going on inside the body that's making people sick when I saw that technology I'm thinking if they know how to mean what's making people sick why can't I take that technology and keep people healthy interesting thing was the person who was working on it he says I I'm gonna quit my job and help you do that now I have an amazing team and a technology that is doing this work every venture capital is start to call what are you doing what are these people coming and joining you for I am have this amazing audacious goal we want to invest in the company and minutes you tell them I don't need the money is the amazing things happen the minute you tell them I don't need the money it's like raising a red flag in front of the bull they are just mad what do you have that is so goddamn valuable that you're not even willing to share with me when I'm giving you money just don't need the money right they will give you money at any cost at any valuation as much as you want or more than what you want so if you tell them look I really don't need it but if you really insist I'll take 5 million would you please consider taking 10 now 10 is too much right they ended up give me 15 I'm not kidding you it's an amazing things is when you play the game right people come to you because when you go to them they think you need it let them come to you and they will come don't you worry they all will come because you make enough noise the last thing they want is to miss out in the next Facebook right so if you go you are in front of a VC let me tell you how that goes if you come with a conviction and that says I am going to do this until my last drop of blood if they see that conviction that you're willing to die for it and if they know that if it is actually successful it is going to move the mill billion people is going to be a massive enterprise they don't want to miss out on that fear of missing out is bigger and I in fact all the ones I ve seen you don't have to invest in it but when you say no you know you're going to be a poster child when I actually make this happen to say that guy said no you don't want to be that guy to be on the cover of every magazine that said no it's eerie all of it it helps to have a couple wins under your belt obviously where your people have have either made money off you or missed out before but but some great lessons in there all those yeah the best way to invite people is to not invite them the best way to raise money is to not ask you have to build these relationships before you need the money this is when you need the money it's blood in the water and then the other thing the other two things I noticed is that he breaks down his vision so simply that everybody can understand it and feel an emotional reaction right I'm gonna mine resources and colonize the moon you're like whoa I've seen that before I've seen it on TV you know like that's something that moves he I'm gonna make illness optional I mean that's that's so concise and so powerful and then the other part is you know he has a larger megaphone in terms of like being able to get on TV and things like that but Adam Shire do you know Adam who created Siri he's got this very you know sort of developed framework and he calls it you know once you set your goals he calls them verbally stated goals once you believe them with all your heart then he goes and tells everybody what it ties you it makes you accountable so do you really believe and actually one would tell you but Adam one of the things I'm not sure he told you the story about when they started Siri when they started CD it was pretty obvious that there was not enough bandwidth or enough processing power that could actually make Siri work and you know what his answer was I know it's going to be three four years before the technology actually exists but who thinks I'm going to be ready for another three or four years anyway and amazing things while they kept building the technology kept growing and the lesson there was when you find the technology that's on the exponential curve you watch where the knee of the curve is and if you can find you never want to be where the puck is you want to be where the puck is going to be so if you watch a soccer player the fifth grader always chasing the ball and if you look at a World Cup soccer game the best players stand where the ball is going to be not where the ball is and that's really the amazing thing you're building a company don't look at what the today's technology will do you start thinking about where the curve is where the technology is headed and if it's going to take you two or three years to build it you see in three years from now what technology will exist that will solve this problem yeah you know especially as a start-up if you're a 20 22 year-old startup there are already players in that space by the time you get 10% better they've lapped you so you really have to be looking two three four or five years ahead to see where you fit into the landscape see a little bit more about the people who are competition and the number of people who are in the industry great points so amazing things is that it used to be people would say oh my idea someone else is already working on it or they already have four or five years I heard of me how am I going to go compete with that and the interesting things that I find is the technology is moving at such a fast pace anything that people are doing today is going to be obsolete in four to five years or five to seven years that means if they are already five years ahead of you there are two years before dying right that means you now have an edge over them that you start with the latest technology that exists today you are already five years ahead of them in terms of the technological curve right so that is something you have to learn these never get disappointed just because others are doing it you need to come in and say they've been doing for seven years that's the old technology I can go out and beat the out of them by using the latest technology and you get the we know a lot about I can tell you that it's that there's another thing about competition that that if you truly are looking at at big things big things things that no-one's done before people there is less competition in that stratosphere now it's not easy to get there it's not easy to sort of make progress on it but you know you want to be a lawyer there's plenty of competition people going through law schools and getting big jobs and big firms but if you want to like do elite things there are fewer players up there and you know a lot of the innovations are sometime they are technological innovation and a lot of the time they're really the business model innovation so don't really think of innovation that hey I am NOT a scientist how I gonna innovate anything you innovate by taking the existing things and by bundling them together you create something totally new so you can take the commodity stuff and by packaging it right you create something totally new I mean if you look at the car every car is same thing it's built out of plastic and glass and you know steel how you put them together is what makes a Ferrari a Ferrari and you can the same I think makes a Yugo so you can have a you go you can have a Ferrari it's the same thing plastic steel and glass they still help you go like those did die well let's let's let's can we talk a little bit about your background just because we have usc's you know the first or second most internationally diverse university in the country I want to talk about myself I want to talk about them so I'm gonna focus on what can I do while we have time to see how I can help you what you're trying to do because you know my life you know is really good so I'm here to give back to you didn't come out right so I'm gonna talk about my life no no there'll be a chance look it'd be tough to have one-on-ones with 300 people just like hey what are you working on what do I do right they're gonna have a chance to talk that no they're gonna have a chance to ask you questions and and so let's frame it with your business a little bit then if you don't wanna talk about your background everything that's fine mind talking about it just did uninteresting I mean you know this is the you know story of a typical immigrant right you have nothing you come from nothing you don't speak the language it's a sob story right oh I didn't have food to eat I didn't have a place to stay Island you know I'm a Slumdog Millionaire came here like life has been good yeah so that's me the American dream right not far from it well that covers it it's there there are some things to actually pull from that but you know coming here not speaking the language and and you didn't have any money when you can write so if people like to you know there's a lot of talk about you know Americans work harder than anybody or the hardest-working people you know you know where the hardest-working people are desperate people people that don't have a safety net so I think I'm gonna maybe just take a little bit of the back part of the story about what why do I do what I do today what gets me excited to come here and say I'm gonna take two hours of my life and come sit here and talk to people that I don't know right and this is really is why I do that so as as you can imagine came with nothing and society and everyone embraced me with open heart with open arms and I look at that any which way you look at it if I may say God has been very kind to us and you look back and there are many times I you know remember the people who helped me and I call them what can I do for you and the answer is I don't need anything and that's probably one of the worst thing you ever want to hear that you have a debt that you owe to someone and they don't want anything back from you so you have that debt on your shoulder you're trying to figure out how to pay your debt that back to the society that you have and the only way I found that I can pay back is to pay forward the people who helped me don't need my help so I'm gonna dedicate my life to helping as many people as I can and hope they will have exactly the same feeling when they become successful to go out and pay forward and that's the reason I go do everything I do is to move the humanity forward help as many young people as I can because when I came here I was your age right so I was your age about 20 22 didn't know anything people just embraced me people helped me and if I don't do that to someone else I am actually become very selfish that I took the elevator up and I took that key and threw it off I want to send the elevator back and bring as many people back up as I can and that's the reason I'm here that's it so you know we talked about how to measure success and failure and how do you how do you how do you how do you monitor whether you're on the right path and successful and so some people may say I track it money I track it in service or a biggest so how you know yours has all been in framed with impact the success is never about how much money you have in the bank success will be measured by how many lives you've been able to improve success is not you're not going to you know you will know when you are successful very simple formula the day you become humble is the day you become successful if you still have out of arrogance left in you that means you're still trying to prove something to someone else or to yourself when you have to tell someone you know how much money I have or you have to tell someone how big my hand is you know I'm not talking about our precedent you're really not successful it's true if you knew that earlier in life that that if you're trying you know if you're sort of chasing that it just takes probably decades if I knew it when I was 20 before you know actually you know it's interesting that when you talk to young people I mean how do you ever understand that it's really not about money making money is the byproduct of doing things that you love and if the best way I can explain is it's like having sex if you you know if you focus on orgasm you'll never get it so just enjoy the process so think about making money is like having an orgasm just don't focus on it so you you and look some of this stuff is useful because because it framed like at 20 and 22 it's harder to put yourself in their shoes but you did sort of come here well that should explain a little bit more I've preached children and the best thing I can tell you is I'm going to give you the advice that I gave them and I think I'm gonna just give you through their life because everything that I'm telling you is how I essentially what they are dead because our oldest is now 27 our daughter is 23 and our youngest one is 2021 oldest graduated from Stanford as from Wharton and last two are from at Stanford so I can tell you some really interesting story about when my oldest one was 10 years old at that point born in 92 thousand I'm running my first company in four space and it was worth about thirty-five billion dollars at that time I came home from an interview and he comes to me and says you know what dad I'm gonna make more money than you then you have I could have easily put my arms around his neck as good luck son but I didn't because that would have been ultimately what he choose for rest of his life I sat him down and I said uncle I'm so surprised you think of success in that way I want you to be super successful and if you are able to change more people slide than ever did I'll be just so proud of you you know what he said whatever that but it's amazing he's ten years old he says whatever dad and walks out now he is 17 years old a sophomore or 18 sophomore at Wharton calls me one day and seen our dad I've been thinking and I said what he said I'm going to start an organization there you know I've been going around all the friends are meeting at different colleges brilliant brilliant students they all come from middle-class background and they just didn't have the mentors like you provided the mentors to the I I had the best mentors in my life I want to create something that I'm gonna bring all the mentors like I had for them and he started something called Kairos Society right how many of you are Kairos member here you so interesting thing is he started when he was 17 or 18 and now it's been 10 years amazing things happen he said dad by helping these people around the world become successful is how I'm going to improve lives of more people than we ever did that kid who says whatever dad remember the goal what he wanted to achieve so what the lesson really is despite what the kids tell you when they know what will make you proud of what the parents would be proud of they always do what makes black parents proud of second thing I told him was that your self-worth is never going to be about how much what you own and how much you own it is going to be about what you create so if you own a lot but you haven't created anything you're still a piece of as for society's concern right you are still a parasite on humanity because you haven't created anything so you look at all these guide in the Middle East who own a lot but there's still a goddamn piece of for society's concern because they haven't created anything yet right so remember so the lessons we were teaching them were about the simple values of what we stand for and if you haven't seen him he was last week he was on CNBC and Fox talking about how Silicon Valley has lost its soul and he went out and saying why is it the brightest of the people in the Silicon Valley when you go to CES a building that olestra enable toilets alexxa enable toaster Alexa flush toilet is that the biggest problem that's facing the humanity he says here we have a society the kids are graduating with a 1.5 trillion dollar debts the kids cannot live in New York with you know paying 60 percent of their income on the house why is no one fixing the real problem by faced by the real people why aren't people focused on the actual problems that is there the trillions of dollars a problem that actually exists instead of building this $700 juicer but I highly encourage you to go watch his talk because I think you'll just love it so his name is uncle a and K you our last name is same gen interesting thing is imagine now his sister growing up that this kid is now out there everyone so he's in the cover of ink magazine he's the full page profile on LA Times full page profile and Wall Street Journal he's everywhere and the little girl going under and she's thinking how am I ever going to be successful looking at my brother and it's really hard because they have two choices at that point to say I'm going to go out and make that happen and be better than that or says I could have been but I just didn't want to and they completely go in a different direction interesting thing was I started to work with her and saying you know I call her my dog so it's really interesting so I said sweetie you really need you can be what you want to be and she came to me one day and the reason I'm trying to tell you is that something hopefully it will resonate with you when she was 17 years old she came to me and said dad I have found I know my true passion I know what I want to do with my life and and I say sweetie you're too young to have a passion because the easiest answer for me to say it's what's your passion I want you to pursue your passion right and I said sweetie you're too young to have a passion I haven't exposed you to enough things yet that you don't even know what you don't know she said that I know I know you want me to go to science and technology I absolutely do not want to do that so how do you deal with that so I said you know how about this we do one thing I want you to go to singularity University I want you to learn about nanotechnology neuroscience genetics and and I want you to learn about all these technologies and if you spent four weeks learning about them with an open mind wanting to learn and wanting to like and if you promise me that when you come back whatever it is you want to do I will support it and said dad if you give me your word I'm going to go out there with open mind and go do that she comes back four weeks later opens the door and said dad I made up my mind my first words are old I said sweetie I gave you my word what is it that you would like to do instead dad I want to be either a neuroscientist so genetic I took a deep breath I say at the risk of you changing your mind can you tell me what actually happened he said dad you were just so dumb okay so tell me what is it dad I am in high school and I am now I go to these science classes and they put the chemicals together they teach me these things I'm thinking why do I really care when am I gonna use this in my life when I went to single er the university I did I know my passion is helping women and I realize how am I going to help women if I don't know how the human brain works how am I gonna help them with their health I don't know anything about genetics and I decide if I want to help women be successful and empower them I need to know this and the science and technology is simply the tools for me to do what I want that's not a destination imagine that that changed her life and if I had simply allowed her to do what she wanted not only she would have never found her true passion world would have lost out on a great great person now today she's working on artificial intelligence and a gender equality so her whole thing is the gender gap can only be filled when there is artificial intelligence removes all the gender bias so they now work with Unilever in the first time with the AI for recruiting they have 300% increase in women and minorities somehow they did that it's really nice I'll come back what they do is basically they say who are the most successful people in your organization and they take and see what are the skills and what are the things they have and then they develop the video games that are completely unbiased not designed for man or the boys to be successful they can be played by women or men and no one knows who they are and they get their sign number and they see all the skills and when the employer is looking for someone to interview they don't know who this person is and they say I want this person this person and this person and when they do that suddenly they find the best person was the women but they would have never ever even asked for that interview and in fact very interesting they had done multiple studies they took identical resume and put in two different names to it and one person got called another one didn't get called identical and that's simply the bias that we have the humans despite what we say we are a pattern matching machine our brain matches a pattern if a venture capitalist has funded the last ten companies and eight of them have been successful and they were all Caucasian man they're funding the next one the Caucasian man if everyone was funded that was successful was a Indian man they're going to fund the next Indian man walks in it's the pattern they find our youngest one is a junior at Stanford and he's just amazingly coming through his first public talk was a TED talk and United Nations how and power of youth just listened to the talk Scott power of youth the young people are not the leaders of tomorrow young people are leaders of today they are changing the world today now there are be positioned to be changing the world someday right because you and I for the first time in that human history has a power to do things that only the superpowers did before when you think about going to the moon only three super powers have ever landed in the moon we there's no every private company that has ever done that when we land on the moon not only we become the first private company to do so symbolically we become the fourth super power despite what you may hear that Elon or Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson are going to space they all stuck in the low Earth orbit we are the only company in the universe that actually have a permission to leave Earth orbit and land on the moon President Obama signed into the law that says anything we bring back we get to own it who would have thought right so amazing things happen it's a lesson of entrepreneurship is when I started the company I could have come up with a ten reasons why this will never work there is no department for a proving the mission to the moon how will we ever get the permission we didn't think about that how would we have even if we go there we bring back all the stuff when they confiscate it all would we have ever right there is no law that says we get to own it we didn't worry about that we say it we'll cross that bridge when we get there and we did cross that bridge and the beauty of life is whenever you moving forward the lesson I can give you is when you cross the bridge you burn the bridge behind you because there is no going back if you know the bridge is still there there is a tendency to go back when the times get tough when you burn that bridge behind you there is no going back you only move forward there is nothing else you can do so so let's talk about moon Express for a few minutes you uh you don't think what a help we'll talk about yeah I'm just trying to give him a hard time so on the moon how you know how many people are on your team now where do you stand in and where do you see it and in the next year I think this year you've got your first scout expedition is so we are going to launch you know in this environment either later this year it might slip to next year but it is definitely happening right so we are going to launch the mission in the next 12 months imagine how close it is we've been working in it for 10 years 10 years ago when we started people said it is going to cost at least billion dollars to get to the moon because when we did it the first time it cost 10 billion dollars and it took a whole nation in today's dollars that will be about 100 billion dollars and they say maybe you guys are smart you can do 4 billion dollars I was absolutely convinced we could do it for under 100 million dollars today we sit here because we knew the exponential technologies we knew the cost of this structure will come down the cost of the Rockets will come down the cost of the sensors everything that's in the iPhone is exactly what we use in the spacecraft we knew the cost will come down and we thought we could do it 400 million dollars today we sit here I'm going to tell you that cost is under 10 million right so I thought I was ten times optimistic bringing the cost from a billion two hundred million guess what I was ten times pessimistic thinking it was going to be a hundred million it is 10 million or under 10 million so that's the beauty of when you start to see that you're on the exponential curve you don't know what is going to happen but you know the cost will continue to come down and even if it didn't come down as fast we knew it was gonna come down the even of the first mission may not have been as profitable we knew the subsequent mission will continue to get more and more profitable as the cost come down so think about when the technology exists what would you do as costs are coming down you start to capture the market early with a minimal profit knowing you're gonna get extremely profitable and you build you build that the gap and you build this core strength by owning the data right the data becomes the most valuable thing you have and that brings me to the second venture on the healthcare so think about what did we do in our country alone we spend a trillion dollar every year on healthcare and the more money we spend the sicker our people are getting so what is wrong with this picture so I'm gonna just give you a little bit of idea of a thought process about three examples what time is it now 703 703 so we have time right I would give you some examples of how to think about it and then I want to open it up to Q&A because I really want you to start thinking about how well you don't like you and if I would time I say that you guys don't want there laughing because like you're dictating when everything happens that's what they're like I'm not laughing at you they're laughing at me oh you were supposed to be the one moderating it these are the best classes for me my dream is to flip the ball to you and to keep us on time this is the easiest not your job is to look good smile that's the first time someone said that but I'm happy to try but no I don't wanna interrupt your flow so go back to the so I was thinking so as I was starting to finish up actually with a moon shot of Moon expressed I start thinking about should i what should be my next moon shot and I start thinking about education or healthcare and it turns out the problems are very similar in education and healthcare how so both in both cases people believe the system is just not working people believe the education is broken and the healthcare is broken and it turns out neither one of them is actually broken they're doing exactly what they were designed to do our needs are have changed our education system was designed to teach us skills and we could use the skill for rest of our life and life was wonderful in the world of exponential technologies every skill that you learn becomes obsolete every five to seven years in fact more often than not by the time you graduate the skill you just learned is already obsolete in that world it's not the education system is broken our needs and the exponential technology requires that we don't teach skills anymore we teach them learning to learn we don't focus them on individual disciplines we teach them the interdisciplinary skills it's not going to be about how much you know it is going to be about collaboration together of how to use interdisciplinary approach to solve a problem so it becomes a problem-solving exercise the teacher doesn't need to be teaching you anything because everything that you need to know is already available on the internet and more modern and later technology than the teacher who is teaching you even knows and lot of the times people who are up to their speed they already know that thing what teacher is teaching about because it'll see him notes from the two years ago is already old and said do you know the professor do you know about the god particle what is that thing well go go google it my point is in the world with everyone listening to you already has all the information what would the education system look like somebody's got to change that and I thought I would do that until I start to look at the healthcare and I'm starting to figure out healthcare system was designed to cure infectious diseases because when it was designed people who are dying from infections and it is amazing I mean there is no better system in the world when you come to acute diseases you get into the accident you have infraction and you're not gonna die from that like you used to die what's happening is just like in our education system since we are not teaching right we have chronic employment unemployment we have the chronic diseases what is a chronic diseases chronic diseases is something that is constantly you are sick our healthcare system was designed for the episodic sickness you are sick you go there and then you come back and life was good it wasn't designed for constant sickness it wasn't designed for the chronic diseases and this turns out the chronic diseases have a common phenomena it's a chronic inflammation so chronic inflammation causes chronic diseases however our healthcare system has become so big that it has become an organism in itself and when a system becomes organism you know what happens the survival of the system becomes the biggest goal and the purpose goes out the window our system now has actually designed to keep you sick if you have something novice something novel you know what it does like any other organism it swallows the new thing it says I've never seen it before I'm gonna is the immune system than antibodies and I'm gonna kill this new technology before it starts to find something that will kill me and that is what our healthcare system does how does a doctor makes money when you go and see him you because you're sick if he keeps you healthy you become healthy and he becomes sick because he's making no money right pharmaceutical companies they are designed to keep you sick they love chronic diseases that means subscription business section in fact you know what one of the pharmaceutical companies he used it on a conference call and investor call he said the best drugs that we develop are the drugs that people have to take for rest of their life what he's saying is the best drugs are the ones that keep people sick not the ones that cure people how does one stand in front of the mirror and not pull a trigger on the bullet and say I'm going to kill myself how pathetic I am right that is our system so I decided that system will change it turns out we as humans and I'm going to tell you something that coming from outside the world you're gonna find it fascinating because I didn't true anything about health care so here are the things I learned we as humans we have more foreign cells in our body than the human cells think about that for a second when it comes to our genes our genes only our DNA produces 20,000 genes and the forints foreign organisms in our body they produce two million genes that means we are less than one percent human and we are walking talking microbial ecosystem so I was trying to explain this and most people it just goes right over their head so yesterday I was speaking at another event and I came up with a theory of how to actually explain that so I'm gonna try this on you I came up with a way how how why were the how were the humans created how were we created and I have a theory however when humans created so on this planet the bacteria and viruses had been around for four billion years the humans are only a about 200,000 years old so here's what I think actually happened about a million years ago all these bacteria and viruses got together and they said we're sick and tired of living in this local area we want to take over the world and they all looked at each other one wise man said I think we can do that you are the crazy guy tell me how what if we create something that will carry us around and you know what all we have to do is keep this thing healthy it's going to run around and feed us all the time it's going to go out everywhere in the world it's gonna poop everywhere it's going to spread us around and you're gonna take over the world and humans were created now the humans were not very intelligent at that point the humans were just not very intelligent suddenly they start to see this organism called humans start to grow and they got together again he said just like we are afraid of artificial intelligence if this thing becomes is smarter than us what will happen to us the one wise young millennial asked the guys sir said look at this you created this thing is going to one day become smarter than us how are we going to live won't you think is going to actually kill us how are we going to survive the master said nodded for a second he says don't you worry you know what we did one of our brothers is inside their cell it's called mitochondria mitochondria used to be the ancient bacteria guess what not only our brother is inside their cell it is the energy Factory the mitochondria provides energy they go out of control we shut the energy they're gone everybody's happy Master you did a great job other guys sitting in the corner sees master master I have another question what they got this brain one day is going to get a smarter what are you gonna do about that I said oh you did not tell you about that we got this vagus nerve that goes all the way where we reside in the gut we got this vagus nerve everything we say they do when we say you are hungry they go search for food when you say your fault they stop eating when we want something they crave for it best parties we're going to control how they feel the serotonin we're not going to let them produce it 90% of the serotonin we're going to produce it in ourselves we're going to control how they feel and that's how the microbiome the or microbe in your gut is controlling the human beings that's how the world works so now that I've told you what this how we were created now what do we do about it so why am I telling you this story is it's not us it's them when we are sick is because our guests that are in our gut are not taking good care of us and you know why not taking good care of us because we're not taking good care of them so when our guests are not taking care of what happens they release these enzymes and toxins that are absorbed in our blood and what happens our immune system 70% of our immune system is our gut lining our system gets inflamed we get leaky gut these toxins are changing our gene expression so a microbiome changes the gene expression of ourselves here is very interesting research I found every single chronic disease so you can Google any one you want Parkinson's and microbiome you Parkinson's Alzheimer autism depression anxiety PTSD OCD ADHD obesity autoimmune diseases diabetes and cancer is caused and influenced by your microbiome so much so even the cure for cancer whether it works or does not work depends on microbiome in fact if you google immunotherapy and microbiome they will tell you whether the immunotherapy works or does not work depends on a microbiome whether the cancer chemotherapy works or does not work depends on your microbiome Cleveland Clinic published a research about two at two months ago that says the breast cancer is caused by the microbiome they took 1,600 breast cancer tissues and found the microbiome interest thing is microbiome is so important when the baby is born not only everyone in the medical field today believes that baby in the womb is completely sterile Wow you got everything there good website I didn't even know you had a bad side so everything everything that you know Matt garden doctor when you ask them they will tell you that baby in the womb is completely sterile the amniotic acid the placenta is completely sterile month ago it was changed they actually published the research in a full-term baby that shows the placenta has a microbiome amniotic acid is microbiome and the baby has microbiome and in fact when the when the baby is born all the labor that you get that's not a nature way of punishing the mother that is a way of microbiome moving to the birth canal and that's when the baby it is goes through the birth canal is how the baby is exposed to the microbiome interestingly the first seven days of the breast milk has colostrum it cannot be digested by the human body it can only be digested by the microbiome in the gut so imagine what nature is telling us the offspring that I just created the only way I can keep it healthy is to not even feed it but feed them because if they are healthy the office spring will be healthy and that breast milk has full microbiome of the mother and antibodies so when lot of the people are essentially now selling them as mothers may a milk to other people just realize what's happening you're taking someone else's microbiome someone else's antibodies all of them are there in fact when you get the blood transfusion the blood is not sterile either they check for diseases they don't check for microbiome you getting someone else's microbiome and I know some people who got the stem cell transplant done outside the country and got completely massive autoimmune disease because they got someone else's microbiome the immune system actually have caused massive amount of infection the reason I'm telling you is that once you know that life not really simple because if your microbiome is what controls us how do you know what is going on inside you gut and you go back to 2,000 years ago what one of the philosophers a hypocrite he said 2,000 years ago all disease start in the gut that's what he said and you know second thing he says one man's food is other man's poison there is no such thing as universal healthy died it died that's good for you is not good for me and it died that good for me today won't be good for me in three months because as you start to change your diet your microbiome changes and it becomes different and then you have to readjust and retune your diet and constantly you have to retune remember there used to be seasons people used to eat different food in different seasons now we have the Whole Foods and Safeway and cue of seas where you get the same food twelve months a year we can't have the same diet all the time so what we did at wine was very interesting we says what if remember the technology we got from the Los Alamos National Lab they measure your RNA of every single organism in your gut not only who they are what they are doing and how active they are based on that we can also look at your blood and saying how does your body digest protein fat and carbohydrate and we can tell you exactly what you should be eating and what not I was trying to lose weight which I'm still AM and I was pre-diabetic and everyone told me the best thing I can do is to cut down all the carbs cut down all the starch and start eating healthy food life I need to be eating it's more spinach more kale more avocado more oats and cut down the gluten and everything is the enemy and I followed that guidance here's what happened first few months our last weight here later came right back up my glucose is back up the same it turns out when I launched why am I was the first guinea pig to do the test it turns out my diet needs to be mostly carbs 50% of my diet needs to be carbs and the things I need to minimize and not eat our spinach avocado oats everything that I was doing and it's not their bad thing because I was eating so much of them my gut became totally in balance because I was feeding one set of bacteria and others were starving imbalance so there is no such thing as good bacteria or bad bacteria it is the ecosystem that makes them go to bed so think of the like a rainforest every metre of rainforest is completely different ecosystem yet it's all lush and green so it can be completely different yet lush and green so ecosystem is what matters so what we do is really is to keep you healthy so when you talk about matter of choice we tell you what is going on and we tell you what to eat and what not to eat now I already have that information that actually is currently commercialize its commercialized interesting thing is I launched about four months ago 10,000 people signed up and I'm gonna tell you some secret we just signed Deepak Chopra who's gonna be promoting it to his 15 million followers dr. oz just recorded it short two days ago he's going to be going live in two weeks to women that we did not know did that test and went on dr. oz won lost 70 pounds and she says she posted on a Facebook actually you can go see it she says I was one week away from getting a getting gastric bypass surgery I decided the last resort I'm gonna try Y on I lost 70 pounds we didn't we don't we're not a weight loss diet we don't do anything where it lost she had a leaky gut and she had inflammation we fixed her gut and a symptom went away other woman said I was depressed and had acne and all anxiety we didn't focus on anxiety or depression or anything else we fixed her gut the symptoms went away so point is these are just the symptoms we don't go out and say what symptoms are we working on we simply say let's fix the gut and amazing things happen I I'm gonna sign up tomorrow so interestingly it used to cost $10,000 when we launched four months ago we launched at nine ninety five we do not 399 right and I'm going to do something if I could do I'm going to give everyone $100 off I don't know how yet but I'm gonna offer I'm gonna find a piece of code I'm gonna be a code and give me about pony give me about 12 hours to make sure that I can go back and call someone to make it happen what would you like the code to be secret code that only you know by Ron or no how about a BA or the leap leap leap leap2 leap is going to be the code and when you go to Y uncom / leap you're gonna get $100 off right and it's going to be $2.99 other right and anyone you want your family anyone can sign up for the next seven days I'll keep the code active so it's gonna be for seven days why I'm calm / leap get anyone you want it's a courtesy of courtesy of your professor here and he would pay for everyone yeah now you're gonna do a few honey finally he said he said he wanted to hear from you so let's let's get some coffee so you went to IIT yes and clearly you weren't entrepreneur once you graduate it you've been through small positions and build your way up where did you start that God - this entrepreneurial not mindset but spirit actually I was at Microsoft for about six years and I probably at that the best times that Microsoft had ever seen from 1989 to 1996 you know Microsoft Word you know it was tiny company when I joined and by that time we launched windows 95 just took off the stock was on rocket ship I made about a million dollars or so from the Microsoft stock and after tax we got some money and one day I just quit my job and I came home and I told my wife I quit my job and said what do you mean by you quit your job and I say like no more paycheck she was not happy she said I am pregnant you are irresponsible husband how you not a single anymore you got to take care of the family you can't just quit your job call them and tell them he want his job back and I still look what are you going to be doing otherwise I say I really don't know what I'm gonna be doing yet but I know I can you know internet is this thing just starting out the only four companies Yahoo like costs you don't remember like us Magellan and excite those were the only companies on the Internet at that time no I know Alta Vista knowing Tomino all these guys no Facebook no MySpace and I said there's something happening here the people are starting to build this thing I'm gonna go do something on the internet and and that's what I did so I spent the whole weekend looking for something to do and I found a website that actually was doing something called white pages and yellow pages company then called switchboard and I'm thinking that's a great idea it's probably some goddamn you know II do drug running it I can probably do much better than that and that's my thing I always feel that I can do better so just to make sure that I was absolutely convinced I could do better I picked up the phone and call the CEO and I said sir I like the business you are in and I sure I'm sure you have a family I just want to give you a warning your company is going to go out of business if I were you all start looking for a job and it's how are you going to do that and I said that's really easy when you go home the call you did not make I'm gonna be making that call and then you come home when you come to work the call you are about to make I already made that call I'm gonna work harder than you ever did and I'm going to be smarter than you ever be and I'm going to drive you out of business and just to show you I bought the damn thing just respite the out of them after that when I became successful I just wanted them to know there's only one boss right thank you sir and by their I had no success at that time I was the first time entrepreneur right and you know I'm gonna tell you one interesting thing is I started with that and then I moved to smartphones and this is really interesting in those days in two year 98 I took the company public based on the fact there's some day they're going to be smart phones Steve Jobs launched their smart phones in 2007 and if you're interested you can read my interview in year 2000 and Washington Post with a woman named Leslie Walker and here is another interview says one day we are gonna have a phone that's going to have your email and contact any stock quotes and you're going to be able to use your phone to make the payment instead of credit card and then you drive by the Starbucks you're going to get a Starbucks coupon and the lady says not in our lifetime and I called her seven years later when the iPhone came out I hope you're still alive because happening and you know you're thinking that how did I come up with this brilliant idea that this is gonna happen it wasn't something because I had some crystal ball on any smarter so I'm going to tell you how you think and why it happened the two things were happening in those days everyone had this flip phone the best phone was that Motorola start record you flip phone and there was two lines of display and people used to carry Palm Pilots how many new Palm Pilots oh my god this is smart class it's a Palm Pilots they used to write on there there were the email contact and calendar and people used to carry pagers have you seen those pagers right people used to carry them and I start to think about it they have three devices they have this phone they have Palm Pilots in a pager they need to come together and everyone then I said you're gonna have your email on a phone people are thinking how can that pool line phone ever have your email or the stock code or anything else and I was thinking why can't the Palm Pilot have a phone in it right so that was the only change I'm thinking Palm Pilot can become a phone and they were thinking the phone is going to stay a phone and everything has to go on that flip phone and that is what my aha moment was and the second thing the reason I decided to do what I was traveling from San Francisco to Seattle one day and I had this pretty girl sitting next to me and feel pretty good settings me you chat with her right so I'm asking her hey what are you working on she Sam at AT&T what do you do there I'll be working on some secret project come on I see you and I don't know each other you can tell me what you're working on she says we're going to build a phone that's going to be able to dial like a modem onto the Internet and we're going to be able to get two lines of information that you can send back a tiny information but you're gonna be able to connect to the internet and get a tiny bit of information back it's like oh I got the white pages yellow page you won't you want people to know type in the name and I can get you the phone number that'll be an amazingly great service we would like that I said can you connect me to the boss and that's how I started working with AT&T and now interesting thing is that boss calls me one day he says you know we have a problem because when you do the phone service people are going to think we are taking their phone number and displaying them and they're going to be really upset so we can't launch it under AT&T brand you have to use your own brand and we have to put your brand right on the box to say it's not our service it's your service push my arm hard InfoSpace was the company yeah so I saw a video on youtube of you um it's titled how to be a billionaire and you were talking about like the importance of soul body in mind I saw in the video like you were living a nice like life and you had like really nice cars and like a red Ferrari and you were like really enjoying life can you elaborate a little bit like Wow how like what's the importance of of starting your morning off like with maybe starting off with your emails like you said and like start exercised and soul maybe talk a little bit about that so first of all you know he's talking about a a movie that in UK TV came and did a movie and I don't know why the hell didn't named it how to be brilliant that wasn't a title they told me it was all about the mindset of thinking are they just thinking and it's agreed by the it's documentary is not that bad but if you want to watch I did a very recent podcast a loose house you watch a really good about thinking unachieved thinking unachievable Louis le Wis house at your W es so just tap novena and Lewis house and you would watch on YouTube it's called thinking unachievable I think it's really good about the mindset that you'll really enjoy but coming back to it the reason I think is really you know generally if everyone asked about these you know what are the habits that you have and I want to understand those habits and the rituals and I really think that's the dumbest question people ask and here's why because you want never to follow somebody's rituals and habits you want to follow their thought process for example Tony Robbins takes an ice bath every day you can take your eyes about three times a day you're not gonna become Tony Robbins right right the point is following someone's ritual doesn't make who they are thinking like Tony Robbins makes you Tony Robbins think is the thought process and the mindset so if we asked me how I think I can tell you that telling you what I do in the morning is not going to get you to become anything right but idea is that you know to some extent what I do do which I think I think you can benefit from is always take inventory every day when I go to sleep I when I go to sleep I spent five minutes in my prayer room just looking at the day and asking myself am I better off today either intellectually the things I learned that I didn't know am I better off emotionally that things I did not deal with I dealt that better today or spiritually the things I did today that I never thought I would do right so if I'm better off every day I feel blessed and I always count my blessings every day remember that gratitude that gratitude is the most amazing thing that's gonna bring happiness if I may say so just to continue on your thoughts are is that happiness is a choice happiness is not something that happens to you happiness is a choice you make it doesn't matter what is happening you can think of a ten reasons why your life is amazing it doesn't matter what is going on you can find 10 reasons why you should be happy and it doesn't matter how good your life is you can always find 10 reasons why your life absolutely sucks and why you should be unhappy that's the choice you make Bill Gates may have a great life but he probably cries every day because he's no longer the richest man right he could but he's not what is that's the choice you make you can always find something that other people add that you don't but you can focus on what you have and be feel blessed the best thing I find that gives me the most amount of pleasure and try that do something for someone without expecting anything back no transaction never expect transaction when you do a transaction with someone that that will never bring you happiness do something for someone say can I help you or pay for someone behind you in the Starbucks and just walk away you don't have to even tell them who they are you are and that would start the chain of reaction of people helping each other an amount of satisfaction you get just do that it's amazing to see when you help people and don't ask anything back or not ask expect anything back it's going to be amazing things yeah you'd mentioned something about the American dream I was wondering do you still believe the American Dream is available and if not where do you think it exists so American Dream has become the universal dream the dream that we had here is now in China and India and Brazil every humans want to have that American dream now to some extent we have lost a lot of what made America great what made America great was simple things we attracted the and the brightest we gave them so much opportunity to succeed we call this the land of opportunity and the thing that we did best when they succeeded we celebrated their success today we don't want people best in the brightest coming to our country we want to close our borders and if they come in there we put every hurdle in their way to make sure they can't succeed and if they succeed we tell them you are a corrupt 1% you don't belong to our society because you are a one-percenter you don't belong to us that's not what America was about America used to look up to people who were successful and say I want to be just like you they never looked at them and saying damn you that's not the America I know and that's not the America we want and I'm not even running for a political office right but to me the American Dream is alive and well and we together will continue to achieve it because we're not going to allow so here's a very interesting thing the governments are starting to become irrelevant the entrepreneurs are going to become the next superpower and the nation-states are going to become irrelevant and I wrote an article on CNBC about it how and why aren't reppin ores are gonna be the next superpower and I can you know give it to you or just shoot me an email and because I want to make sure I answer more of your question but just remember entrepreneurs are going to be the next superpowers and nation states are going to be irrelevant so it doesn't really matter what they do because we are going to control the deaths our own destiny and the society is going to control their own destiny and if you have any question I'm gonna give you my email just send the email to me my first name dot last name Naveen dot J&J AI n at gmail.com and I only get about thousand emails a days to another two hundred is not going to kill me alright alright novena I have three questions yeah sure around the same vein so one have you ever dealt with dealt with self-doubt and how did you overcome it - how many unsuccessful ideas have you had and what did you do about them and three what have been your biggest failures and how have you overcome them so there's never a day when you don't run through the self-doubt though so I don't even know if I were to tell you that I never doubt myself I would actually be lying to myself because you doubt every single day that would this actually work would I be able to make this happen and the things I can tell you that actually never worries me what worries me is the 65 people or the 70 people who work in the company who believe in me not to screw this up right so my biggest burden is if this company does not work my life will be just as amazing at it is always being but those 70 people that work in that company they're depending on me not to up and that just had too much responsibility just way too much responsibility and that's where I get the self-doubt that am i doing the right thing and what I actually be able to make it happen and the reason I keep moving forward is again the way I get over that is that every decision I make I always believe given the information I'm doing absolutely the best I can so the two things I learned about life I never worry about the thing that I can't control because I have nothing I can do about it out of my control and I never worry about the thing that I actually can control because I'm doing the darndest I can every single thing I can do I do my best every day so I don't worry about it it will be what will be right so I don't worry about what the outcome is the reason is other things is when the things are really really bad and I just ask myself the same question and I get the answer when things are really bad and I all say if God has given me this if this is the worst thing that God has in mind for me I have lived a great life I'm now gonna worry about it and when you asked yourself that oh my god my boyfriend just broke up and my girlfriend just broke up you say if this is the worst thing that's gonna happen to me have I lived a good life and the answer is there plenty of fish in there water [Music] reaction there thank you for coming in you're very inspiring person so you talked about how you were always on the lookout for like new technology new said it's advisable to like look out to the future and be like what's the new thing gonna be do you have anything in mind any field or any new technology that you're particularly interested in at this point yeah so first of all let me just give you the process of how I go about and then I'm gonna answer your question specifically about the current technologies so what I do is every day I spend the first three hours of my day and I'm not suggesting you get up at 4:00 a.m. but I do get up at 4:00 a.m. right but I get up very early in the morning at 4:00 a.m. and I spend the first three hours going through all the scientific discoveries that happen and the way I do that is in my Twitter feed I follow every science journal I don't care whether it's a nanotechnology or neuroscience or genetics I follow everything I want to know what is going on what are the latest discovery why do I do that every time I read something I'm collecting the dots and I keep collecting these dots and when I see the missing dot I said aha now I can solve the problem that I have been thinking about and I'll give you some idea about how that works so I was at NASA eject JPL at Jet Propulsion lab in your neighborhood and I was just went to the tech transfer office I said what kind of technology you guys here when I'm just looking for some you know great technology you guys may have developed for space that I can use and they always some smart you know say oh we got Hubble telescope are you interested in that but they never expect an answer to say I think I'm actually interested in there so tell me more and when they start discarding I see you know can you tell me how do you detect the faintest light coming from a very distant star and no actually what is going on he said oh you want me to tell you about the Delta dope UV sensor I said that one yeah that's exactly what I'm looking for and now they're describing that how they're able to take a UV light and it can be very very faint and they can still make sense of it and it occurred to me that I was reading a science journal about 6 months ago that says every bacteria when you put a UV light to it it has a autofluorescence very very faint autofluorescence and I'm thinking wow that means when I am sick if I spit and I can put this camera on top of that it will tell me if I have a bacterial infection a Worrell infection so I see can't you detect the bacterial infection from that sure we can but why would you want to because they don't think like that I say what would it take for you to build me a tiny camera that can show me that you can actually do that that's going to cost fifty thousand dollars I say it's fifty thousand dollars go show it to me right point was I wanted to see can they actually do that and they build a prototype now think about it we just saw we could potentially solve one of the biggest problems facing humanity the overdose of antibiotics people creating a antibiotics resistant bacteria right so my point is if I was not reading a journal that was completely useless thing about bacteria having a protein that is the autofluorescence I would have never been able to connect that dot now answering your question about what technology I'm really really excited about if you think about it what are the biggest problems that are facing humanity the bigger the problem bigger the opportunity right so never think of a problem our social problem as a nonprofit thing if you want to do a small good in the world you become a social entrepreneur you become a nonprofit if you want to do a much good in the world you create a profitable enterprise profit is what allows you to scale if you can do a good 4,000 people and make money so you can do good for a hundred thousand people and then do a good for ten million people and they've good four billion people you need to profit even if you are the richest man in the world you're going to go bankrupt if you buy that time you can get to a billion people you can run out of money you need to create profit what are the biggest problems lack of food lack of fresh water lack of energy what if you can create abundance of energy abundance of food abundance of water what if you can solve the crisis of healthcare the crisis of Education the crisis of poverty and you say how can that possibly happen and I can give you how to do that too so you look at energy every 90 minutes more solar energy falls on planet earth then we use in the whole year is simply the conversion problem today this best solar cell converts about twenty twenty-one percent efficiency that's going to go up now imagine what happens you know what used to be the most precious metal about couple of hundred years ago most precious metal 200 years ago platinum copper it used to be aluminium aluminium is an abundance on planet Earth but it's never in the pure form is always in the form of bauxite it used to be so precious that when Napoleon hosted the King of Siam he wanted to show his wealth he fed all his generals in the gold plat gold platter all his troops in the silver platter but for the King of Siam he fed him in the aluminium platter he wanted him to know I am the rich King here in fact the top of the Washington Monument is made out of aluminium we wanted to show the British ours we have arrived we are not a poor country anymore fu that was tip of aluminium right it was simply what happened it technology called electrolysis came about that made aluminium so cheap to extract from bauxite it we throw it away what would be the electrolysis of the solar energy that will fundamentally change it and if you do that think what happens when you have abundance of energy and it becomes free and you could solve a world peace what do we fight over we fight over land water and we fight over energy people say the humans are so greedy it doesn't matter how much we have we will always fight over it and I can tell you that it's just not true we are all sitting in this room breathing the same air same oxygen we are not fighting over it why is that because we actually believe is in abundance we don't believe the air or the oxygen is scarce so we don't fight over it what if the energy became so abundance just it became the next air it became free and when you have a free energy what happens even the dirtiest water you can distill it and it becomes a free fresh water what if you have a free fresh water and you have free energy could you have abundance of food even today when people talk about environment how many of you actually care about environment here everyone and you pop up you probably believe that all of the things we are doing like driving the fossil cars instead of electric cars we are damaging their environment right no good that's good you know what the biggest damage to the environment is caused by cattle cattle breathing is the biggest damage we do to the environment the methane that the cattle is produced and I'm not even seeing if you care about the environment you would be just one day we you don't eat beef you would do more for the environment than driving Tesla right I am a vegetarian I get Ferrari but my point is you can swap you can solve many of these problems so point is you can you know if you want to solve the problem you start to think about where the problem exists right so when people say we want we don't have enough fresh water fresh water is used more majority of fresh water is used for agriculture what if you can make equi panic or aeroponic agriculture that all lightly salted seeds that can be lightly salted what you slightly sore the water you'll have plenty of fresh water until you realize most of the agriculture is used to feed the cattles all you have to do is create the beef synthetically what if you can take a stem cell of the cow and come only create muscle tissues he's coming that's ok I'm that almost done but create the muscle tissues that you can eat and you can create the bio factories off the beef without ever having to raise the cattle and you can solve that problem so anyway it's such great advice there's so much that we learned and you have his email so you could ask him more questions this is like Bill Maher after hours on Bill Maher we can follow up with our questions for us he's up seven with two minutes to go in case you're wondering over Stanford but it's close he's getting closer what are you gonna remember from this I'm gonna learn so much on the science side he just has a voracious curiosity it seems like not only does he like want to learn more but he died jet digests it and and really seem to know it and seemed overly so in five years what are you gonna remember from our talk with Naveen that's actually the good thing what is one thing that you would do differently wonder what do you want one thing you one thing you will get what do you do differently or one thing you learn well if they learn they don't do it doesn't really matter follow well this is what they're gonna follow yeah who's ready who's ready go you might have a love but you don't create something you ain't say it again Lord the only way you can pay it back is to pay it forward burn the birds behind you before you start something Asuma will be successful failures when you give up life of an arch board entrepreneurs like a heartbeat if it's flat that means you're dead Stan where the ball is going to be not where it is if you're a vegetarian you can drive a Ferrari say it again illness is often work on ideas that will move the needle for humanity success is about how many lives you can help gratitude brings happiness take it one slice at a time you become humble when you're successful lead for something you'd die for all right go into an industry with no experience do something for someone without asking for anything in return to a device making money is a byproduct of doing what you love it don't follow people's habits follow their thought process I want to be cocky and every idea that doesn't work as a stepping son to a different and better idea well your happiness is a choice you make coming up urn the bridge to keep moving forward yeah stand where the ball is going to be not where it is entrepreneurs don't take self inventory every night I miss anybody no more do something that effectively people do something l factor million people one more let's hear it and thank Naveen James [Applause]

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Length: 90min 28sec (5428 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 28 2018