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Found: Sara Spangelo, Swarm

Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sara Spangelo's startup Swarm now has nearly 100 of its satellites in orbit, but the journey to get here has had plenty of challenges. After a track record that included working at Google X, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and plenty more, Sara realized with her co-founder Ben that including low-bandwidth network capabilities on tiny satellites was not only possible, but offered massive cost-savings vs. the usual way of doing things. But our talk focuses on the challenges of being a first-time founder and CEO, and creating a whole new business model. Links for this episode: Swarm Swarm’s low-cost satellite data network is now available to commercial clients Connect with us: On Twitter On Instagram Via email: found@techcrunch.com Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Equity Family, this is Alex. Equity, as we've mentioned a couple of times is off the back half of this week and so thinking about what to do to keep you informed and entertained, we decided to throw in an episode of Found. Found is the other kind of main TC podcast done by Jordan Crook and Darrell Etherington and it's quite good. It's all about founders. So if you are in the mood for a Vamp with some neat people building early stage companies, this is for you.

0:25.0

In the meantime, equity is back to our regular schedule on Monday morning.

0:28.0

We'll talk to you then.

0:29.0

Okay, bye.

0:30.0

Hey, this is Darryle Etherington from Tech Crunch and I'm here with my fellow failure, my fellow

0:39.8

failure, my fellow unable to achieve anything or.

0:45.0

Oh my God.

0:47.0

I suggested fellow failure, I did not suggest to go any further at all, but yes'm here my name's Jordan you know that listening to these two

0:57.7

losers means that you're listening to found a weekly podcast from Tech Crunch where we interview people who are actually successful.

1:07.0

Start up founders.

1:08.0

I like to think of them as overachievers.

1:10.0

We interview real try-hards. Let's put it that way.

1:13.0

But yeah, every week, a different entrepreneur comes on the show for some reason.

1:18.0

Because we asked them nicely, but I'm always surprised when they say yes.

1:22.0

And then we talk about

1:24.4

their startup journey and kind of why they decided to become an entrepreneur to

1:28.4

begin with and why they went and took the leap and were brave enough to go and build a thing and then we talk about stuff like fundraising and also you know company culture.

1:41.6

And this week was a really good one. Maybe this week was a really good one.

1:43.6

Maybe this week was a thrilling time.

1:45.8

We talked to Sarah Spangelo from Swarm.

1:48.9

She's CEO and co-founder of Swarm, which is a space company that builds really tiny, cute, adorable satellites.

1:57.0

We'll look them up, these are all 100% objectively true things.

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