#18 Daniel Metzler: It’s called hardware because its hard – founding in the aerospace industry
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English - August 10, 2021 22:30 - 45 minutes - 36.6 MBBusiness Technology entrepreneurship innovation technology business leadership cdtm success setbacks start-up innovator Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Daniel Metzler is the co-founder and CEO of Isar Aerospace. Daniel studied mechanical engineering at TU Wien and aerospace engineering at TUM. During his studies in Munich, he joined the rocket technology initiative WARR, where he worked on special rocket engines and met his later co-founders - Josef Fleischmann and Markus Brandl. In 2018, they founded Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH. Isar Aerospace builds satellite launch vehicles that are smaller, cheaper, and more sustainable than existing ones.
2:24 How it all started
Daniel tells us how he got into the aerospace industry and when and how he realized that he wanted to start a company in this field
08:10 Isar Aerospace: Aerospace technology made in Germany
Daniel shares what his founding experience was like and what fears and challenges he faced.
He also talks about what he learned from other companies and what the rocket prototyping process looks like.
24:08 The importance of space technologies
Daniel explains how space technology improves life on Earth and what functions satellites perform. He also tells us what the challenges and opportunities of a hardware start-up are.