OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation

• Guillermo Söhnlein, a cofounder of OceanGate, has a grand aspiration for the future.
• By 2050, he would like to see 1,000 humans living in the sulfuric acid clouds of Venus.
• He told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11.

Guillermo Söhnlein has been unexpectedly thrust into the limelight in the wake of the Titan submersible tragedy.