42: Mo Islam, Co-Founder at Payload Space - B2B Media, Space Stations and Elon Musk
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English - November 06, 2021 04:33 - 51 minutes - 118 MBSelf-Improvement Education Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mo started his career in Wall Street, where he conducted research in the space industry and then, started Payload Space to cover the new innovations in space. We talk about the space hype, US vs China, Elon Musk, solving space debris and more.
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OUTLINE
(00:32) Origin Story of Space Newsletter
(03:49) Why Space
(06:19) Why the space hype
(11:20) How vertical integration brought costs down
(13:45) Did Elon Musk single-handedly accelerate space industry
(17:58) US vs China space industry
(20:51) Angel Investing in space
(24:52) Space business model to look out for
(28:17) Module misfiring in International Space Station
(30:22) Solving space debris
(32:42) New grads working in space companies
(36:12) Future of Payload
(42:51) Benefit of space research
(46:13) Content Business Model