4 β’ 4 Ratings
ποΈ 15 December 2022
β±οΈ 67 minutes
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βI promised you, Sven,β said our co-host Daniel, after Sven pointed out how much he enjoyed James' ideas. ββ¦I could talk to James for hours.β
James' unwavering passion for satellite imaging, and his company Skywatch, is almost tangible. Originally a side project allowing astrophysicists to access data from NASA observatories in near real-time, Skywatch catapulted James into the industry after garnering investor and media interest in 2014. Now a business with over 800 customers globally, Skywatch, through James' leadership, is a company worth admiring in the new space sector.
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0:00.0 | Totally. |
0:01.0 | So what I say is getting the space used to be the hard part about the space industry. |
0:07.0 | Now the hard part is building a profitable company. |
0:09.0 | And so the problems have just moved down the value chain. |
0:12.0 | Now like anybody can raise a seed fund and put a sensor in orbit. |
0:16.0 | What's really hard now is producing already data and reaching the market, |
0:20.0 | reaching customers and building a profitable, |
0:21.7 | scalable business. |
0:44.2 | Hello, and welcome to the new space vision podcast where we feature executives, entrepreneurs, and more. |
0:49.5 | And talk about their new space vision. I'm Dania Seide. And I'm Sven Schiwara and we are the founders of the Earth Observation Company Live View. This podcast was already recorded once, or at least we tried it a couple of weeks back. |
0:57.9 | But the problem is we are right now moving into a new office and in our old office, |
1:02.5 | for whatever reason, the landlord has decided to provide us shitty internet. |
1:07.7 | So we did something. |
1:09.1 | Danny, what did we do? |
1:10.0 | Yeah, basically, we ordered Starlink. and holy shit, that was a customer experience. |
1:16.1 | Like we received it a few days after ordering it. We just put in the credit card online. |
1:21.1 | And then once we had the package, we unboxed it. One hour later, we had Wi-Fi connected to Starlink's internet from space. |
1:31.3 | So today we are recording the podcast again and we have Starlink as a backup. |
1:36.3 | So let's see if it works out. |
1:38.3 | And it's pretty cool. |
1:40.3 | Yeah, it's really incredible. |
1:41.3 | The future is here. |
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