Mendler: In-space compute and IoT are not today's commercial reality
“Like now there's enthusiasm around compute use cases and there's enthusiasm about IOT and other future industries moving to space. But the reality is that that's not space today.”
Hurlston: Lasers will be necessary to build an internet in space
“If you can put a laser in the ocean and transmit across the Pacific, you can certainly put lasers in space and create this reality of an internet in space, right? It's going to be necessary.”
Mueller predicts global compute infrastructure will eventually move to space
“Compute will need to move to space at some point.”
Ivanka Trump reveals investments in AI, biotech, robotics, and space
“So whether it's incubating companies from for-profit to non-for-profit businesses investing in companies and founders that are really right at the edge of transformation, whether that be AI. Biotech, neurotech, robotics, ah, even space.”
Harrison: The ocean is often harder to build hardware for than space
“Candidly, in some cases, the ocean is actually harder to build for than space, because space has a lot of just, like, neutralizing effects, right? It's just there. And as long as it's maintained, it can be maintained. I mean, you have satellites that have been…”
Friedberg predicts data centers will relocate to space or Iceland
“So as soon as all the states start banning the data centers will just go to space, to Iceland, to Texas, to wherever.”
Elder: Substantial AI model training will happen in space within 30 years
“In 20 years or 30 years, there's gonna be a lot of AI models being trained in particular in space”
Isaacman: Nuclear startups prioritizing space over terrestrial demand commit malpractice
“If I was on the board of any nuclear power startup right now, I'd be like, this is malpractice for you to put even a minute of time in space when we've got unlimited terrestrial demand.”
Manyika: Google aims to conduct AI training runs in space by 2027
“So the first milestone is we're hoping that in 20, 27 will have done a couple training runs in space.”
Elon Musk: Space will be cheapest location for AI compute in 2-3 years
“The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years. Maybe three. Three at the latest.”
DeWahl: The US launched a nuclear reactor into space in the 1960s
“We actually put one reactor into space in the 19 sixties to test that out.”
Forsgren: SPACE framework adapts effectively to AI development environments
“We're actually seeing that space applies fairly well in these new emerging contexts like AI, because we still want to look at, so space is an acronym, right? So we still want to look at satisfaction. We still want to look at performance.”
Clark: Rockets are inefficient for precision satellite placement in orbit
“Launch vehicles or rockets are only really good for getting into space. They're not good for doing the last mile, or in space, really, the last 20,000 miles. They're not very good at precision placement of assets.”
Galloway: Elon Musk has been a net good for the world
“I think he's been a net good for the world. Inspired the EV race, the space, I mean, seeing that rocket, that booster rocket captured on it as it's falling, that shit's just inspiring.”
Ejeckam: Akash cut semiconductor temperatures in space by 80 to 90 degrees
“In space, we already reduced temperatures there, 80 to 90 degrees.”
Levie: US leads world in AI, biotech, transportation, and space
“Like we are leading in AI. We're leading in biotech. We're leading in transportation in, in most categories. We have the chance to lead in, in energy in most areas. We're leading in space. So you kind of look at all of these areas where we're clearly in front …”
Wright: Armada has discussed deploying its edge computing data centers in space
“We have definitely talked about putting galleons in space at some point.”
SpaceX Crew Dragon reaches space just 12 minutes after launch
“And so, 12 minutes after launch, you're in space.”
Lowery: High-powered microwaves will definitely become a major space warfare tool
“Space is a it would be a, it's definitely a domain where high powered microwave will become a significant player in. In the near future.”
Suster: Upfront Ventures is deploying significantly more capital into space
“We're putting way more dollars into space right now.”
Maritime tech startups are following space tech toward vertical integration
“Space ultimately had to be done a lot of things in house and vertically integrated, and we're seeing a similar approach with maritime.”
Caldwell: Space launch costs are falling along a Moore's Law curve
“The cost per pound to put something in space, and it looks like Moore's law, where what's happening is that there's this Moore's law looking graph on how cheap How much cheaper it is getting to put something into orbit.”
Smith: Microgravity Enables Novel Pharmaceutical Compounds Impossible to Synthesize on Earth
“The physics when you're on earth due to gravity and some of the other forces that don't exist in space results in you not being able to create certain chemical structures, and that impacts the way that drugs can be basically ingested or administered. And so th…”
Wolfram: Space is discrete and composed of fundamental atoms
“Space is discrete. There are atoms of space, so to speak, not like physical atoms like hydrogen, helium, and things.”
Forsgren: Developer satisfaction strongly correlates with overall productivity and system stability
“This actually matters because we find that satisfaction well-being ends up being incredibly highly correlated with all of the other dimensions of productivity and doing things well. And as soon as satisfaction well-being, things like sustainability, if you're …”
USC's Rocket Propulsion Lab became the first student group in space
“We had the ultimate vision of being the first student group in space, which they ultimately achieved.”
Steve Pagliuca's Venture Strategy Focuses on Biotech, AI, and Space Tech
“I'll always be affiliated in some way with Bain Capital, helping Bain Capital. I'm going to continue to build the sports group, which I love, and then continue to invest in these areas like biotech and artificial intelligence and space on a venture basis.”
Tomorrow.io is shifting observation to space because ground IoT data has geographical limits
“Today, I must say, we're going to space to improve observations because the weather of things approach is super cool, super geeky, but It's limited, to be completely honest. You don't have devices over the ocean, you don't have access to devices in every count…”
Sam Parr: Naval Ravikant quit B2B software investing to back moonshots
“And he recently had a meeting for his syndicate members. I had a friend who went and he said something like, I'm no longer going to do B to B software. Because even though it's like a surefire way to make money, it's just boring to me. And now I'm only going t…”
Chamath: Space is too vast for any nation or entity to own
“It's too vast, it's effectively infinite, you can't own it, ok?”
Sacks: Future military artillery will be space-based
“Look, the future artillery is going to be from space.”
Zurbuchen: Low Earth orbit is shifting toward becoming a domain of war
“If you ask me kind of my kind of in low earth orbit, what is my biggest worry right now? It is that, that we take the common good of space that we've You know, over decades we've used that way, you know, in a non-interference basis you know, with international…”
Chamath predicts Social Capital and one or two others will dominate SPACs
“My personal perspective, it's probably us and maybe one or two other people who really dominate the space.”
Wu: Subjective self-reporting is the main flaw of nootropics
“The biggest criticism that you can level at the space is that one, it's very self-reported. It's very sort of subjective”