Varda’s Delian Asparouhov: “The space gold rush”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Delian Asparouhov, founder of Varda Industries, to talk about manufacturing in space (3:00), the collapse in launch costs (6:45), SpaceX’s Starship (8:55), coming to America from Bulgaria (11:30), the math Olympiad (12:20), his previous tech jobs (14:55), founder dating (17:45), building space factories (24:20), the ‘coming down’ challenge (26:05), setting a 2-year timeline (29:20), the pitch to investors (30:50), what else can be made in microgravity (34:05), and what you can do in two days in space (41:20).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology. What is it all about?
0:04.4	We're space manufacturing for Earth. Like, right? Like, we're not building stuff in space for people in space.
0:09.5	We're building stuff in space for people down back on Earth. It's that means you've got to bring it back down to Earth.
0:12.9	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes
0:26.6	and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:28.8	I am your host, Danny Fortson, but you know that.
0:32.4	How are you all doing?
0:33.9	I'm fine.
0:35.4	It's actually my birthday next week. Yeah, last year in my 20s, I'm really. It's actually my birthday next week.
0:39.4	Yeah, last year in my 20s, I'm really going to soak it up.
0:42.8	Of course, I kid, I kid.
0:44.3	Somehow, I'm about to turn 44, which sounds old.
0:49.5	I just feel like it was yesterday. I was walking around my short pants.
0:52.7	You know, now I'm a dad. Got a bad back.
0:56.2	Tech podcast. How did this all happen? But I feel good. Fighting fit. Ish. Anyhow, I don't think
1:07.6	you downloaded this. You hear me blather on about my midlife musings.
1:11.1	Which you want to hear about is manufacturing human hearts in outer space.
1:16.5	Yes, that is what we are talking about this week.
1:19.5	On the show, we have Delian Asperov, who is an investor at Founders Fund.
1:25.0	He's also the co-founder of Varda Industries, which is a brand new company.
1:30.7	It's about six months old, isish or less. And I believe it is the first company attempting to
1:36.2	actually build space factories. And I'm not kidding. So I'll let him explain, but the very,
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