{"id":13531,"date":"2015-02-22T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13531"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:22","slug":"hyperloop-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/hyperloop-is-coming","title":{"rendered":"Hyperloop Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Peter Diamandis\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/pdiamandis\/\" rel=\"author\">Peter Diamandis<\/a> \u2013Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Have you heard of the Hyperloop? It\u2019s the concept described as \u201ca cross between a Concorde, a railgun and a bullet train.\u201d Think: Los Angeles to Vegas in 20 minutes or LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">A new company called Hyperloop Technologies, Inc. was announced on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bruceupbin\/2015\/02\/11\/hyperloop-is-real-meet-the-startups-selling-supersonic-travel\/\">cover of Forbes<\/a> this week, and they are taking on a bold new mission. I\u2019m proud to be a founding director of the company, and very excited about the supercredible team that has come together to make Hyperloop happen.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">I sit on the Board of the company along with Shervin Pishevar (major early Investor in Uber, Sherpa Ventures), Joe Lonsdale (Founder Palantir &amp; Formation 8), Jim Messina (Pres. Obama\u2019s Reelection Campaign Manager), David Sacks (Paypal, Yammer), and Brogan BamBrogran (Former SpaceX Engineer, and acting CEO).<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/02\/16\/hyperloop-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Diamandis \u2013Singularity Hub Have you heard of the Hyperloop? It\u2019s the concept described as \u201ca cross between a Concorde, a railgun and a bullet train.\u201d Think: Los Angeles to Vegas in 20 minutes or LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes. A new company called Hyperloop Technologies, Inc. was announced on the cover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46614,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions\/46614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}