Interview

April 21, 2020

“If you are not disruptively innovating now you are done”

Founders of the XPRIZE and Singularity University on how they expect Covid-19 to change the world


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Peter Diamandis, executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, and Salim Ismail, founding executive director of Singularity University, see the disruption of the Covid-19 as an opportunity to rethink the normal rules of business.

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