Space 3.0: Building space factories for Earth-bound products with Delian, co-founder of Varda
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🎧 Episode #16 | Space 3.0 with Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries and principal at Founders Fund
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In this episode, Delian explains why Varda’s mission statement is to “expand the economic bounds of humanity” and how its success will do for space what the gold rush did for California. If Varda succeeds in building a space factory 10 times the size of the international space station as planned, Delian envisions that the downstream effects could expand the sphere of human economic activity to low orbit, and then to the moon and beyond.
If the prospect of opening whole new frontiers of human activity isn’t enough for you, there’s more. Delian and Marshall also discuss the emergence of a new generation of space companies he calls Space 3.0, why the most exciting startups in space have to walk the knife’s edge between commercial viability and science fiction, the implications of 10xing or 100xing the number of satellites we have in orbit for the next 10 years, and why deep tech founders need to look more like Las Vegas party promoters than software founders.
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August 23rd — Into the Metaverse with Gaby Goldberg, Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners
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