Bill Perkins is one of the most famous natural gas traders in the world.

Last year a fund run by his Skyler capital management gained more than 200%.

Capitalizing on soaring prices in the first half of

2022 before adjusting just as those prices fell back to Earth. A contributor

to that investing success? Satellite Data. So I'm sitting in a meeting trying to buy satellite data. So I'm sitting in a meeting trying to buy satellite data to train a machine learning model to track cargo ships, right?

I have, you know, we're going back and forth. I had to fly to meet to buy the data

You know I'm trying to write a 250,000 dollar check and it's taking weeks and months and I was ready to pull my eyelashes out. I'm just like what's going on here?

I can order I can buy a house on LoopNet without ever seeing you know or a building.

I can buy a car I can buy everything automatically online.

Why, you know, I said to the person, I like you, but why the hell am I here?

Why am I talking to you?

This should be an automated process. It should be easy. I should be able to do this and

download it on my phone. And at that moment I realize, why am I complaining? Why don't I just do it myself?

And so that's what happened. That's literally what happened.

SkyFi officially launched to everyone in January after the startup raised $10 million

to develop the app

allows users to access and even customize satellite imagery.

While being able to capture space-based data using

commercial satellites isn't necessarily new, SkyFi's affordable pricing and easy access is.

Photos of existing images begin at $20 and custom images start at $175.

My mission is to democratize Earth

authorization data so that the geniuses,

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