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Jeff SkollFounder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation, The Jeff Skoll Group, Participant, and Capricorn Investment Group “About a month ago in the US we had about a thousand confirmed cases; today we have about 600,000. The developing world is very much on that same pathway.”Jeff Skoll knows pandemics. More than a decade ago he launched an organization whose current name reflects its mission: Ending Pandemics. Skoll, who once served as eBay’s first president, also sounded the alarm (presciently, it now seems) when he produced the 2011 film Contagion, which anticipated the global upheaval caused by a pathogen originating from a wet market half a world away.From his years studying what could go wrong with a virus like COVID-19, Skoll clearly sees the challenges ahead: “We literally need something like 22 million tests a day to truly open up the country and be safe,” the soft-spoken Canadian tells Mike. “And cumulatively, I believe that there are no more than 22 million tests that have been done all over the world.”

Jeff SkollFounder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation, The Jeff Skoll Group, Participant, and Capricorn Investment Group “About a month ago in the US we had about a thousand confirmed cases; today we have about 600,000. The developing world is very much on that same pathway.”Jeff Skoll knows pandemics. More than a decade ago he launched an organization whose current name reflects its mission: Ending Pandemics. Skoll, who once served as eBay’s first president, also sounded the alarm (presciently, it now seems) when he produced the 2011 film Contagion, which anticipated the global upheaval caused by a pathogen originating from a wet market half a world away.From his years studying what could go wrong with a virus like COVID-19, Skoll clearly sees the challenges ahead: “We literally need something like 22 million tests a day to truly open up the country and be safe,” the soft-spoken Canadian tells Mike. “And cumulatively, I believe that there are no more than 22 million tests that have been done all over the world.”

Ep. 20: Sounding the Alarm, with Entrepreneur Jeff Skoll

Join us for a wide-ranging, future-looking conversation about the inspiration, motivation and business processes behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, the Kitchen and the Kitchen Community. We will discover what drives the Musk brothers in their groundbreaking work, whether pioneering online payments, sending the first private rocket to the International Space Station, building electric cars with robots or rolling up their sleeves and partnering with students and educators to build gardens in impoverished communities. With the help of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll, we will uncover the richness of their creative process and discuss how to make a profit, create jobs and contribute to the broader community at the same time. Wait till you see what's around the corner.

Dinner Program - To Infinity and Beyond- Jeff Skoll Talks with Elon and Kimbal Musk

Speakers: Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX; CEO and Product Architect, Tesla Motors, Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder, The Kitchen CommunityInterviewer: Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman, Participant Media; Founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation. Join us for a wide-ranging, future-looking conversation about the inspiration, motivation and business processes behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, the Kitchen and the Kitchen Community. We will discover what drives the Musk brothers in their groundbreaking work, whether pioneering online payments, sending the first private rocket to the International Space Station, building electric cars with robots or rolling up their sleeves and partnering with students and educators to build gardens in impoverished communities. With the help of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll, we will uncover the richness of their creative process and discuss how to make a profit, create jobs and contribute to the broader community at the same time. Wait till you see what's around the corner.

Speakers: Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX; CEO and Product Architect, Tesla Motors, Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder, The Kitchen Community Interviewer: Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman, Participant Media; Founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation. Join us for a wide-ranging, future-looking conversation about the inspiration, motivation and business processes behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, the Kitchen and the Kitchen Community. We will discover what drives the Musk brothers in their groundbreaking work, whether pioneering online payments, sending the first private rocket to the International Space Station, building electric cars with robots or rolling up their sleeves and partnering with students and educators to build gardens in impoverished communities. With the help of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll, we will uncover the richness of their creative process and discuss how to make a profit, create jobs and contribute to the broader community at the same time. Wait till you see what's around the corner.

To Infinity and Beyond: Jeff Skoll Talks with Elon and Kimbal Musk