And then GPS started getting smaller and smaller and smaller and cheaper and cheaper and cheaper.

And then, you know, we're in a position, I'd say, 20 years later where many, many people, billions of people have a GPS receiver and a global map with, you know, navigation directions in their pockets.

And, you know, I've seen some estimates which say that if you had to switch off GPS today,

you're probably going to cause about a billion dollars of damage per day to the US economy only, just the US.

And that's something that, you know, 20 years ago was really more or less niche.

I think that there is the potential for the same thing to happen with the satellite imagery.

I've seen it happen with other parts of the geospatial

industry already. So things will change more than you think.

Hello and welcome to the New Space Vision podcast sponsored by Live You, where we discuss New Space Technology, finance and innovation with executives, founders and more exciting people from the startup and new space ecosystem.

I'm Sven Shivara.

And I'm Danes Zail.

And together we are the founders of the Earth Observation Company LIFEO and New Space Vision.

Today we have a guest which I'm super happy that we can record the conversation.

We had so many discussions about the space ecosystem.

It's Sean Witt, the CEO of the geospatial data platform Up 42.

And there was one story. Like if we talk, we can't stop, right?

So there was a conference in Paris.

We were coincidentally in the same plane.

And then we said, yeah, let's eat something.

It was 9 p.m. in Paris.

It ended up 3am with a lot of beers and we just talked about the space ecosystem, right?

It was really, really nice.

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