Welcome back to the new space vision podcast sponsored by life view 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 Dani Saele and I'm Sam Shavara and together we are the founders of the Earth Observation

Company Live You and New Space Vision.

Today we are very excited to welcome Philip, co-founder and CTO of Vida Place, which monitors infrastructure

with a focus on impact investments. Welcome.

Good to be here. Thank you very much.

So, Philip, we always start the podcast off with a couple of questions around the person,

which we're interviewing to just give the audience an understanding of who we're talking to.

Maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself and maybe what you studied and have been

doing before working and founding Vida Place.

Yeah, sure.

And yeah, first of all, just want to say thank you again very much for having me on a podcast.

I've been listening to the podcast, the previous episodes for quite some time.

So super excited to be here today. So yeah, so my background, I think I can say what's always been

kind of like super exciting to me is this kind of like move that we have to make from kind of

like a fossil fuel based economy onto like a fully renewable

based like kind of like inventory infrastructure. So this kind of like key interest really

goes throughout my career so far. Started very, very early. I remember buying with my kind of the

high school pocket money that I had buying like two big like solar

panels much than dismay of my my parents and always kind of trying to figure out you know like

what could be the next to kind of like the energy future that we really need because to me it's

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