Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, along with Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect Charles Simonyi, Perot Group Chairman Ross Perot Jr., and movie director James Cameron have invested in a startup focused on natural resources and space exploration. The company plans to mine natural resources from asteroids. David Angotti points to Michio Kaku, a physics professor at the City University of New York, who believes entrepreneurs and privatization could possibly accomplish what the government cannot.