Planet's Will Marshall: "Taking care of spaceship earth

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Will Marshall, founder of Planet, to talk about going public (4:20), sneaking smartphones onto a rocket (5:40), starting Planet (9:30), photographing earth every day (14:40), what its data is used for (16:00), selling to the military (20:10), leveraging computer vision and machine learning (22:45), building a telescope at age 15 (25:00), the opportunity presented by climate change (28:15), launch costs (32:10), replacing satellites when they burn up in the atmosphere (38:40), creating an ethics committee (40:15), taking responsibility for technology’s power (42:50), and getting rich (47:30).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology. What is it all about? I think there's been a mantra in Sodecan Valley that's
0:06.8	completely wrong, which is that technology, whatever you put out there, is good for society. It's
0:12.2	historically naive. It's called techno-utopianism. It's just plain wrong. That doesn't mean
0:17.7	technology's not good. It just means that it can be used for good and bad.
0:21.5	And most importantly, that some technologies are bent towards good and some technologies
0:25.4	are bent towards bad.
0:35.9	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:38.4	Thank you for tuning in.
0:39.4	How's everybody doing this week?
0:41.4	I'm doing fabulously.
0:43.3	My cold is gone.
0:44.8	I'm feeling good.
0:46.0	We have had a little blast of heat before fall really arrived.
0:50.1	So it's good out here.
0:51.6	But I digress.
0:53.3	This week, I have a great, great guest for you. And he's a
0:58.4	return guest, in fact, who's coming on just like Gene from CELA last week, coming on with some
1:03.3	kind of big, really super interesting news for all of us humans. So, Will Marshall was one of my first ever guests. The first show he came on
1:15.5	was on July 9th, 2017, over four years ago. And Will is the founder of a company called
1:22.3	Planet. What Planet does is they make these tiny shoebox-sized satellites.
1:28.4	They put them on a rocket, put them into orbit, and then every day these little, very smart
1:32.7	little boxes packed with cameras and sensors and everything else, image the entire surface
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