The Goodness Podcast

Anousheh Ansari: The First Female Private Astronaut and CEO of XPRIZE

Episode Summary

Anousheh Ansari grew up in Iran before moving to the US as a teenager, where she studied electrical engineering and computer sciences. She would go on to co-found a telecommunications company,  sell it for over half a billion dollars, become the first female tourist on the International Space Station, and run XPrize, which she continues to do to this day as CEO. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss success, values, artificial intelligence, and space, amongst many other things.