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Peter Diamandis on Entrepreneurial Persistence

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Julian Guthrie, author of How to Make a Spaceship, along with the protagonist of her story, Peter Diamandis. LA Yuri Night; April 2017. Over 150 "no's" from some of the largest corporations and most famous titans of business to get to a "yes" ... the embodiment of being Rejection Proof.

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At the end of the day all of this going to happen it just matter of when and by who so a lot of stories I think the book reads as a motivational lesson because there was a hundred no's on the road to getting to a yes we'll hear from a Anousheh Ansari who funded what is now called the 10 million dollar Ansari X-prize any chance of meeting her you know finding the right person went out of back then 6.9 billion people is is a testament to not giving up and so the fact that you're here, you know, space is not just something that we lightly it is something that a percentage of the human population has what I call the exploration Gene right we are driven by and the desire to explore. It's not for everybody, it's for small percentage but at the end of the day we humans as we evolved savannas of Africa hundreds of thousands and millions of years ago if we just stayed still and never move would have been wiped out by local disaster, but our need to ask our desire to explore moving our if you would our genome across all the continents of this globe have made us the dominant species plus our passions, are CUROSITIES, our skills and that's not slowing down - it's accelerating already because the tools we have to explore are exploding around us and we need a spaceship amazing world so this book tells at store amazing author I was recently at a talk and someone asked me what are the similarities from Peter Diamandis to Larry Ellison to others what is it a genius and I said it's not so much about genius, it's much more I've learned about persistence and it's about this never giving up attitude and that's what I found and the spirit of Peter Diamandis the spirit of one of these people who do you know what other say is impossible and that's what that's what I'm left with here it's about persistence, it's about grit, about determination, it's about never giving up, it's about you know going after that next person that next person, listen, to not being down by being told no 150 times; so persistent guy to my right so I think we have time for about 30 to 40

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