S2E1: The Business of Space and Interplanetary Economics with Sinéad O'Sullivan
TerraWatch Space Podcast
English - October 08, 2021 10:49 - 51 minutes - 41.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTechnology geospatial satellite data satellite imagery satellites gis space geo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to the second season of the TerraWatch Space podcast!!
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In this episode, I am speaking with Sinéad O' Sullivan. Sinéad is one of the most interesting people I know. She has a super interesting background - from working at NASA on space missions to working with Michael Porter on strategy.
Her official bio reads: Sinéad is a space economist whose research lies at the intersection of geopolitics, technology, and economics of interplanetary space missions. She works on behavioral science at Veriphix, Geopolitical AI at MIT, space technologies at the Center for Climate and Security, and a lot more.
Sinéad also does a lot of teaching. In fact, she has a course coming up, which I definitely recommend. It's called "The Business and Economics of Space", starting in November.
In this episode, Sinéad and I discuss her journey, the business of space, boring problems in space, strategy applied to space, challenges of building space companies in the public market among others.
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01:46: Intro & Sinéad's journey
12:28: What's exciting about the space industry today?
15:42: What should investors be wary of?
19:13: Boring problems in space
27:15: Strategy applied to the space industry
34:30: Building in the public markets in the space industry
36:53: Space and climate
42:13: Interplanetary economics
46:53: What worries Sinéad about the space industry
49:03: Wrap-up
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