They didn't themselves pioneer, but they brought in the Nobel Prize winner for stem cell biology for pluripotent stem cells. The Gladstone Institute in San Francisco, we partnered up with them a long time ago.

So we can get to that future.ĭo you mind mentioning any of the names of those institutions? You don't have to mention them all, just a few ones. We have a family foundation called the Roddenberry Foundation, and that is our philanthropic arm and sort of the way of finding the people and institutions out there that are working towards a long-term advancement for the species and trying to help those people and institutions along financially. And sometimes they're not even entertainment-based. I get to give feedback to whether it's 'Star Trek' scripts, or internal developments. But I get to come in with an eye for ideas and share them. I've even got my business partner, Trevor Roth, who I would say is pretty much an equal and does a lot of that as well. I've got the privilege of sitting at the top of the meeting and listening to the ideas and approving what goes through. And they do a lot of the leg work and hard work for me. I'm very fortunate in many ways, I have an incredible team of people who are more talented, more intelligent than I am in many areas. So what's a typical day in the life of the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment like?

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