Guillermo Söhnlein has been unexpectedly thrust into the limelight in the wake of the Titan submersible tragedy.
The cofounder of OceanGate Expeditions has been grappling with questions about the company's ill-fated trip to the Titanic shipwreck on June 18, which killed five people, including former colleague and friend Stockton Rush.
The sub is thought to have imploded within hours of its descent, raising concerns about OceanGate's approach to innovation and safety.
But OceanGate is not Söhnlein's only venture. The businessman's latest — and possibly grandest — endeavor is to send 1,000 humans to live in Venus' atmosphere by 2050. Söhnlein hasn't let the recent events dampen his ambition and claims humanity needs to continue pushing the limits of innovation.
A thousand billionaires on Venus. I see zero issues with this plan. The clouds of sulfuric acid, constant Cat5 hurricane-force winds at the 60-70km altitude where the temperature is -27 to +70 degrees Celsius (who the fuck considers +70 Celsius livable, but whatever) and the inevitability of a giant Whoope Cushion going down and doing the "Fleshlight Submarine Captain Crunch" at quite literally "over 9000 kPa" density, then burned and dissolved by +500 degrees Celsius acid, lmao
Totally no turbulance at all.