It is a raging cauldron of hell and conflict sometimes in my head because I'm half entrepreneur who wants to take extreme risk and then half engineer who by nature is extremely conservative.

That was Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck.

I'm Motley Fool producer Matt Greer.

Now Rocket Lab is an aerospace company with a launch business and a space systems business.

And it has become a big business.

Motleyful co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner and Motley Fool analyst Seth Jason recently talked

with Peter Beck about the business of Rocket Lab.

We're so pleased to be spending this time with Sir Peter Beck, the founder and CEO of Rocket

Lab.

Before going into our conversation, I'll just share, I don't know how familiar

you are with The Motley Fool, but when we recommend companies and often put our own skin in the

game with our members, we do so with a five-year minimum holding period generally and ideally

multi-decade holding period. So we like to assess the long-term vision and mission strategy

and performance of the business. And obviously, we don't want to put you in a position where

you're having to give any forward-looking statements. So just deny any of our long-term

questions that you can answer, but just letting you know that we really are most interested

in the very long-term in our greatest investments, which is not unusual for people

throughout their lives are the ones that they held the longest period of time. Now, I love my

low cost basis of $25 to share right around there for Rocket Lab, but Seth Jason, who's here,

and Lou Whiteman, who can't be here today, both recommended the stock and owned the stock

since it was below $5 a share. So a lot of our Motley Fool members

have gotten in some early low positions with the business. But I think, Peter, we'd love to hear

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