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How to Raise $750M & Build a Space Company | John Gedmark
Astranis just announced a new round of funding, led by A16z, to build more satellites! I sat down with John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis, to talk about how they'll use this $200M of capital and the future of building in America and space 🇺🇸🛰️🛰️
0:00 I used to work here
1:02 Mission of Astranis
3:54 GEO? (Sci-fi)
8:43 Childhood to college
14:30 Silicon Valley for space?
19:14 Founding Commercial Spaceflight Federation
22:07 Why GEO is hard
24:42 Meeting Ryan, CTO
28:18 COVID story
32:40 Early days
35:53 How to raise $750M
47:08 Astranis + US Government
51:15 Manufacturing learnings
53:40 US vs China
58:16 War in space
1:01:18 Astranis longterm vision
1:03:58 Why?
1:05:28 Current life philosophy
1:06:20 1 year of S3
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Astranis just announced a new round of funding, led by A16z, to build more satellites! I sat down with John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis, to talk about how they'll use this $200M of capital and the future of building in America and space 🇺🇸🛰️🛰️
0:00 I used to work here
1:02 Mission of Astranis
3:54 GEO? (Sci-fi)
8:43 Childhood to college
14:30 Silicon Valley for space?
19:14 Founding Commercial Spaceflight Federation
22:07 Why GEO is hard
24:42 Meeting Ryan, CTO
28:18 COVID story
32:40 Early days
35:53 How to raise $750M
47:08 Astranis + US Government
51:15 Manufacturing learnings
53:40 US vs China
58:16 War in space
1:01:18 Astranis longterm vision
1:03:58 Why?
1:05:28 Current life philosophy
1:06:20 1 year of S3