#27: You Don't Have to Be a Space Expert to Harness Its Power! (feat. John Atkinson, Chief Product Officer at LiveEO)

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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John recieved a call from a former coworker who knew his strengths would break molds at a new position for Planet Labs. Now at LiveEO, John applies his expertise as its Chief Product Officer.

This episode showcases John’s accumulation of knowledge since before his career, having grown up “in an environment surrounded by tech.” He continued to drive innovation everywhere he went, from spearheading email efforts in the US house of representatives at the start of his career, to running the global partner ecosystem at Planet before joining LiveEO.

He adresses the myriad use cases for satellite data & how he came to learn of them, sheds light on what LiveEO is doing & how it’s changing the game, and explains that no one has to be an expert in space to harness the value of satellites.

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0:00.0	But you companies that are doing interesting things that I like a lot, there is a company in Brazil called SCCON.
0:08.0	They've developed one of the coolest use cases, a solution for the federal police to monitor deforestation.
0:14.0	But they'll queue a helicopter with commandos that will go out and blow up the equipment.
0:19.0	Like I just thought it was an exaggeration.
0:21.5	There is a video of this. It is not an exaggeration.
0:28.0	All right, a lift-off. The clock is turned.
0:35.3	Lift-off. We have a lift-off. We have a lift-off.
0:39.3	Hello and welcome to the New Space Vision podcast sponsored by Live You, where we discuss
0:44.0	new space technology, finance and innovation with executors, founders and more exciting people
0:48.8	from the startup and new space ecosystem.
0:51.4	I'm Sam Shriver.
0:52.5	And I'm Danny Seidel, and together we are the founders of Live Here and New Space Vision. Joining us Sam Chivara. And I am Dani Seidel and together we are the founders of
0:55.0	Live Year and New Space Vision. Joining us today is our very own John Atkinson, who is the Life
1:01.1	U.S. Chief Product Officer. Hi, John. Hey. So you join us here today in Berlin and our guests will
1:07.7	learn a lot about Earth observation. So when we talked to our board about hiring you, I told them there are a handful of people on the planet
1:15.6	who know as much as you about the Earth observation ecosystem.
1:18.6	Because you have seen partners, suppliers, startups, and a lot of customers, right, at your time at Planet.
1:25.6	And you also have basically been in one of the hottest companies
1:29.1	in the Earth Observation Industry, which is planet in the past years. So I am really, really looking
1:34.6	forward to have you on the podcast. Yeah, absolutely. I think there are going to be a couple of very
1:40.7	interesting nuggets here in this podcast for anyone who's interested in the
1:44.8	space economy and earth observation in particular.
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