Silicon Valley and rich people invest to slow down ageing and live longer

All the money in the world to fight ageing and death

17-Mar-2018

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Super rich people invest their vast wealth in research to slow the ageing process and extend life.

Amazon founder, Pay-pal co-founder, Oracle founder, Google billionaires are only a few of them.

Some of them are even leading companies working towards anti-ageing.

Average life expectancy is expected to go up to between 110-120 years over the next three decades.

This will be due to medical breakthroughs in diseases, new drugs and healthier lifestyles.

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AbbVie

Pharmaceutical research and development.

Jeff Bezos

Chief Executive Officer of Amazon

Jim Mellon

British entrepreneur, author and philanthropist with interests across a number of industries

Juvenescence

Developing therapies against different aging related diseases

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google.

Peter Thiel

American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

UNITY Biotechnology

Biotechnology company devoted to research of restoring human health

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