Silicon Valley Meets ‘American Idol’
February 16th, 2007 by Benjamin KuoThe New York Times has an interesting article this morning entitled Silicon Valley Meets ‘American Idol’ talking about the X-Prize Foundation and its efforts to drive innovation using cash prizes. Interestingly enough, the X-Prize Foundation is actually based in Santa Monica, and the article quotes Bill Woodward of Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures and UC San Diego’s Paul Kedrosky. The X-Prize Foundation, which includes Silicon Valley heavyweights Larry Page, Elon Musk (now at El Segundo-based SpaceX), J. Craig Ventor and others, also includes locals like Gil Elbaz (Google/Applied Semantics, out of Santa Monica) as a trustee, and Mark Goodstein (formerly of Idealab/X1 Technologies), as a managing director.
