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This Week in Startups

Privateer Space CEO Alex Fielding: cleaning up space junk with Steve Wozniak + Behind the scenes of working for Jason | E1465

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason and Molly reflect on their time in previous tech recessions (03:06). Then, Privateer Space CEO Alex Fielding joins to discuss solving the space junk problem (18:02), the difficulties of mapping debris (33:25), and more. Then, Producer Rachel hosts an OK Boomer episode where she talks with the other Gen Z employees that work for Jason about how they got their jobs and what they've learned at Launch (1:00:21).


(00:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s episode
(03:06) Ask JaMo: What do you remember about the tech industry during the dotcom era and recession?
(12:45) Where was Molly in 2008 and how did her career change?
(11:31) BetterHelp - Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/twist
(12:45) Where was Molly in 2008 and how did her career change?
(18:02) Jason and Molly speak with Alex Fielding, CEO and Co-Founder of Privateer Space
(21:04) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist
(22:20) More on the dangers of space junk
(32:12) AdQuick - Visit https://adquick.com/twist and mention TWIST to get $1000 off your first campaign.
(33:25) Is it humanly possible to clean space trash with so many variables?
(1:00:21) Producer Rachel tees up this week’s special OK Boomer segment
(1:10:31) OK Boomer: Rachel speaks with LAUNCH’s other Gen Z employees

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. It is a Friday of all made summit week. We made it. Now you might vote yesterday

0:07.2

We were at a boat yesterday. We were on a boat. No big boat. We're here for you today in the feed

0:12.8

And that's what really matters. You recently may have seen the news that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has

0:20.2

co-founded a new

0:22.6

Space company space related company and we got the CEO on to talk to us. That's right

0:28.8

Alex Fielding joins us today to talk about cleaning up all the junk in space. Obviously getting to space

0:34.6

Thanks to Elon and SpaceX and a number of other players, but mainly Elon

0:38.4

It kind of really cheap. It turns out when you reuse the rocket you can get a lot more stuff up there and bigger payloads and

0:44.5

Now there's a lot of stuff out there. There'll be more stuff out there. That means things can

0:49.0

collide and

0:50.2

colliding at 18 miles per hour

0:52.5

It's not a fun experience. It turns out and the Russians happen to be blowing stuff up in space

0:57.1

Because they can so it's getting a little bit sloppy

1:00.6

I think I'll scare you out there. We'll scare you. Yeah, it's time to do a little cleanup work

1:05.2

So Alex explains that. Yeah, he's a total pro at you're really gonna love this interview

1:09.5

There's just a lot of like geeky space talk. The node is loved it when we recorded it. It's just super

1:15.6

Fascinating about what that low-Earth orbit ecosystem is starting to look like. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of great stuff out there

1:22.8

Everybody's gonna have internet around the planet and they're gonna have it at a really

1:26.9

affordable cost thanks to

1:28.9

Amazon's constellation space X's starling constellation. There's a third one coming out

1:34.6

Also, I'll blow each other up. Well, we and we actually talked about weapons and space and the history of that

1:40.5

I thought that was interesting

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