Moon Express chairman believes his team’s “ready to go for the end of this year”

Chatting up MoonExpress co-founder and chairman Naveen Jain (video link)

NEW ORLEANS-The day before we talked with Moon Express co-founder and chairman Naveen Jain, he sat on the Collision Conference mainstage next to a HoloLens-clad Robert Scoble. The successful investor Jain and the enthusiastic tech-evangelist Scoble chatted about "Startups as a Superpower," exploring what it means if a private business-and not another nation-state-becomes the fourth entity to reach the Moon. And while the challenge definitely carries an inherent amount of glory, Jain believes a startup will have the next Armstrong moment for one familiar reason.

"[Successful entrepreneurs] have to look at what problems we want to solve-tech is a means to an end, and profit is a motivator," he said. "If I want to create a $10 billion business, I need to solve a problem that affects at least one billion people."

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