Naveen Jain: "Moon babies and optional illness"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on tech tycoon Naveen Jain to talk about solving bigproblems (2:30), turning the moon into the “eighth continent” with his company Moon Express (6:25), getting approval for interplanetary travel (8:10), the new space race and moon (10:15), modifying humans to live in space (12:30), why we should bother (15:00), spending $50m to get to a moon launch (17:00), how outer space is like the Internet (18:30), the first baby born on the moon (21:50), making illness “optional” (22:45), the universe of universes in our guts (24:45), faecal matter transplants (27:15), poop by post (29:00), how spinach is toxic for many people (31:10), how chronic disease is a subscription business (33:00), growing up poor (37:30), food as personalised medicine (39:50), why we need to relax before we eat (42:20), starting out as an intern on $3 per hour (44:20), why expertise is useless (45:45), what lesson you can learn from X-Prize (47:15), the death of scarcity (48:30), and how individuals are solving problems once left to nation-states (50:30).

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0:00.0	Yeah, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	I believe in the next 20 years, there's going to be baby born on the moon from the people who are living on the moon,
0:11.0	and they're going to be parents who are going to be looking up and saying, we come from that planet.
0:26.1	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds from the top people in tech.
0:28.5	I am on vacation this week and it is glorious, but no matter.
0:34.7	We are bringing you another episode, which I actually recorded a few weeks ago
0:38.7	with Navine Jane, who's a larger-than-life entrepreneur who has started seven companies now,
0:45.6	going back to the dot-com days. He's made and lost fortunes. He's been sued. He's bounced
0:51.4	back. And these days, well, life is pretty good.
0:56.0	He owns the island, the next island over from Richard Branson in the British Virgin Islands.
1:00.6	So, you know, he owns an island.
1:02.7	So I guess he's won at life.
1:04.9	And he now runs two companies that we're going to talk about in this week's pod.
1:09.5	One is called Moon Express, which, believe it or not,
1:15.1	wants to turn the moon into the eighth continent.
1:18.3	So yeah, moon colonization.
1:20.6	And the other one that he's founded is called Viome,
1:24.4	which, as he likes to say, will make illness optional.
1:29.0	But this is not through some kind of magic elixir.
1:32.9	What they do instead is they analyze the microbes in your gut and then tell you what foods
1:38.2	to avoid, basically what foods are poisonous for you or toxic, and which ones you should
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