Visionary Awardees Kurzweil, Warrior, Blank, Diamandis: Hear what they had to say about their achievements

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SVForum's 2013 Visionaries: Google Chief Engineer Ray Kurzweil, 'Lean Startup' author Steve Blank, Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior, and X Prize founder Peter Diamandis.
Click above to see more of the Visionaries at Wednesday night's awards show.

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Cromwell Schubarth: Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal; Email | Twitter | Google+

Ray Kurzweil, Padmasree Warrior, Peter Diamandis and Steve Blank joined the ranks of Silicon Valley Visionary Award winners Wednesday night at a gala event in Los Altos Hills.
They join a Who's Who of tech and venture investment that have been honored since 1998, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, John Doerr and Jerry Yang.

Check out advice from the Visionaries in 6 seconds or less.

Here are a series of videos from the event, with incoming Chair Debra Brackeen and outgoing Chair Deborah Magid talking about the awards, Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth interviewing Blank and Kurzweil, and Reporter Lauren Hepler interviewing Warrior and Diamandis.
Kurzweil, 65, has been a prolific inventor of such things as the first music synthesizer capable of recreating grand pianos and other instruments, the first print-to-speech reader for the blind and the first CCD flatbed scanner. He has written best-selling books, including "The Age of Spirituality Machines" and "The Singularity is Near." Today he is director of engineering at Google.
Here more from him (including what he's doing at Google) by clicking here.
Warrior came to Cisco after a long career at Motorola, where she was also CTO. She is regularly ranked among the most powerful women in business and technology.
Listen to her perspective on women in technology and Cisco's succession plans by clicking here.
Diamandis, 52, is the founder and head of the X Prize Foundation, which encourages technological innovation to benefit mankind, and co-founder of Singularity University, which also aims to use technology to tackle big challenges of humanity.

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Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.

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