Gil Elbaz is founder and chief executive of Factual Inc., a Century City company that aggregates and organizes huge amounts of online data. Factual, started in 2007, has attracted $25 million in venture funding.
Board and Patron News
02/06/2012
Diamandis also writes fascinatingly about how we are wired to filter out good news: "The amygdala is the part of the temporal lobe responsible for primal emotions like rage, hate, and fear. It's our early warning system, an organ always on high alert, whose job is to find anything in our environment that could threaten survival. So potent is the amygdala's response to potential threats that once turned on, it's almost impossible to shut off, and this is a problem in the modern world."
01/03/2012
Back in the CEO saddle, Page said during Google's Q3 earnings call that the company had been in the process of shutting down about 20 products since July. The decision to close so many at once is not surprising, said Susan Wojcicki, Google's senior vice president of ads: "He clearly wants to have more wood behind fewer arrows."
11/29/2011
Diamandis has made an impact partly through the typical vehicle of entrepreneurs everywhere: A string of bold startups stretching back to his days as a medical student at MIT. Lately, though, he has harnessed the machinery of competition to produce serial breakthroughs in organizations he does not personally manage.
» ANOUSHEH ANSARI – “Space Tourists”: Anousheh’s dream of space travel plays out in a new documentary
11/10/2011
In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a “normal person” and travel into outer space. For 20 million dollars, American Anousheh Ansari was able to fulfill this childhood dream.
10/14/2011
Peter Diamandis is an optimist. He’s also one of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs, and one of the most focused. Combine those qualities, and you get the driving force behind the X Prize Foundation, International Space University, the Rocket Racing League, and a half-dozen other companies operating at the edge of the possible.
09/20/2011
In the preface to his play, The Doctor's Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw made the famous observation that all professions "are conspiracies against the laity." In short, they shield their own shortcomings from the public out of self-interest.
09/09/2011
Naveen Jain has been one of technology’s heavy hitters for a long time as the founder of startups such as Moon Express, Intelius and InfoSpace. time as the founder of startups such as Moon Express, Intelius and InfoSpace.
09/09/2011
Peter Diamandis, the chairman of Singularity University and head of the X Prize Foundation, says that executives had better be aware of exponential technologies like the rapid advances in chips (Moore’s law), biotechnology, or connectivity so that they can use them to gain a competitive advantage.
08/10/2011
Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Moon Express, announced a new era of commercial space exploration at a gala party at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., July 21. The date of the event coincided with the final return of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis and the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11.
