Naveen Jain - Making Illness Optional • What Is A Moonshot? • We Are Mostly Microbial
Episode 192
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world's biggest challenges through innovation. He's the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius, and InfoSpace.
Moon Express is the only company to have permission from the US government to leave earth orbit and land on the moon.
Viome is focused on disrupting healthcare with the goal of "making illness elective."
Naveen Jain is a trustee of the board at the X PRIZE Foundation and is on the board of Singularity University.
He's been awarded many honours for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Naveen became comfortable with change, as a kid, growing up in India
- Moon Express, the first private company given permission to land on the moon
- What is a moonshot?
- We are mostly microbial with a little bit of human DNA sprinkled in
- Every chronic disease comes from chronic inflammation
- Viome's moonshot: a world where illness is a matter of choice, not a matter of bad luck
- 90% of healthcare costs are going toward chronic diseases
- How to properly rebuild our microbiomes
- There's no such thing as a universal healthy diet
- How Viome works
- Our blood has a very rich microbiome
- The majority of probiotics being sold are completely useless
- Your microbes control what genes are expressed, under-expressed, or over-expressed
- What qualities make up a successful entrepreneur
- The most disruptive ideas come from non-experts
- Focus on what you want the world to be
- If people don't think you're crazy when they hear your goal, you're not thinking big
- If you can solve a problem that impacts a billion people, you can create a 10 billion dollar company
- The three types of people in this world
- There's no problem that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve
- How making money is like having an orgasm
- Don't ever follow the habits of other people, follow their thought process
- You become the average of the 10 people you surround yourself with
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