Payload

as a passion project.

Mo Islam and Ari Lewis were frustrated with what they saw as a dearth of quality media

coverage focused on space.

When Ari, my co-founder and I first started the business, we really weren't sure what we were building.

All we knew was that the industry itself was one of the most innovative industries in the world and we looked at the

surrounding media and we said okay the content's really great but the delivery

mechanism and and the products that are built around that content are not what they should be in our opinion, right?

We didn't think that the, where the innovation was occurring in the industry,

which is mainly startups, we felt like that wasn't being covered well enough.

And, you know, we saw a lot of other industries where this idea of B2B media, which is like

building content for an industry audience we felt like hey

it's being done really well in these parts of you know other industries but not in

space. The decision proved to be fortuitous as interest not only

only for main street but from Wall Street in space was starting to take off.

Since securing seed funding in 2021, payload has grown into a space media hub with newsletters,

podcasts, research, and events.

The team is also expanding into other areas of coverage, most recently launching

Ignition, which focuses on nuclear energy.

On this episode, Islam, a former investment banker turned media entrepreneur, discusses the big

trends he's tracking for space and how payload is opening up opportunities

beyond the final frontier.

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