How to lend money to astronauts, with Russel Shaw (Equatorial Launch Australia)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

Credit, Fintech, Management, Lending, Banking, Business, Careers

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode stretches the lending niche, but fifty-four years ago, humanity landed on the moon, so I'm feeling flexible. And anyway, people lend to airport operators all the time, so it won't be too long until spaceports are seen as similarly stable fixed-cost operators.

When I was younger, if a conversation involved a South African tech billionaire and space, you were talking about Mark Shuttleworth (lovely nominative determinism there, by the way). More recently, the same talking points would more of course be associated with Elon Musk. I'll never not enjoy seeing a SpaceX rocket land back on a barge after a successful launch. But Elon's been busy with other matters, and now there's a new name in the Industry: Russell Shaw.

Is Russell a tech billionaire? No. But I'm not Joe Rogan, so I can't exactly point fingers 🤣 And Russell is involved in an exciting project launching satellites from equatorial Australia.

You should visit Equatorial Launch Australia at https://ela.space/ - the launch footage alone is worth our click.

If you're interested in investing, or indeed if you're interested in launching something into space, feel free to contact Russel on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellshaw/

You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, on my LinkedIn page (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this very show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24

If you have any feedback, questions, or if you would like to participate in the show, please feel free to reach out to me via the contact page on this site.

Regards, Brendan

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0:00.0	The applications for space and what you can do out of it are so massive where you can
0:05.1	just see a whole new industry's emerging industries which at face value have absolutely
0:09.7	nothing to do with space.
0:14.9	Surprisingly early in how to lend many to strangers life, PR companies began to approach me to
0:20.4	place guests on the show.
0:22.1	I was flattered and I was delighted.
0:24.6	Doors that I would have expected to have to kick down would now be an open from the inside.
0:29.3	But not every guest makes sense.
0:31.8	One thing that I've always been clear on is that there has to be a lending angle.
0:35.8	I'm willing to stretch to find that and some of my favourite episodes have been stretches,
0:41.1	but I have to link it back to lending in one way or another.
0:44.8	I'm very strict on this, I've turned away many great guests for this.
0:49.5	But did I ever break that rule?
0:51.2	Welcome to Hard to Lend Money to Astronauts, with Brendan Lagrange.
0:55.7	Russell and I do make a token effort to at least mention lending, but I'll be honest,
1:00.3	it's 1% lending and 99% astronauts.
1:03.8	Well technically, not even that, because we're talking unman sighted lights.
1:08.4	Never mind, 54 years ago today, man landed on the moon, so I'm in the mood to make an
1:13.3	exception.
1:26.2	Russell Shaw, CFO and General Manager Commercial at Equatorial Launch Australia, welcome to the show.
1:35.2	Thanks Brendan, pleasure to be on the show and great to chat to you again.
1:38.8	Russell, when you and I were studying, the person that everyone pointed to for inspiration
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