Bridgit Mendler
CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space. On 3 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Bridgit Mendler leads Northwood Space, a startup developing ground infrastructure for satellite communications. Before earning degrees at MIT and Harvard Law School and entering aerospace, she starred in Disney Channel's Good Luck Charlie and pursued a pop music career.
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9said about them ↓ Everything Bridgit Mendler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mendler: Traditional ground networking requires operators to plan 18 months ahead
“So all of that translates to a lot more networking on the ground, which today is super expensive, and it is also really long to deliver. And so both, like, the cost and the time horizon that they need to address that against, think about, like, You know, 18 mo…”
Mendler: Extraterrestrial life will statistically eventually collide with humanity
“I mean, statistically, I kind of have, like, the boring answer, but just, like, statistically, yes, I feel like there is other life out there and it's just, you know, a matter of probabilities that will eventually Collide with us in some form.”
Mendler: Satellite wildfire tracking is useless without low-latency downlinks
“The challenge with that is if you don't have your latency down low enough to be able to give the information, it's pretty much useless, right? Like if you deliver information like an hour later, then you can't you can't deliver anything actionable and helpful …”
Mendler: Higher orbit ground station shortfall is a major Northwood driver
“Like there's really a shortfall of ground assets in the higher orbits actually. And so that's something that we didn't enter into the business planning on, but that's something that has been like a very large driver of activity in our business over the past, l…”
Mendler: Northwood designs all components in-house while outsourcing early manufacturing
“We are a vertically integrated company. Like we design all of the different components. We have those outsourced and then you know, brought in. We're not you know, like making our own circuit boards at this point in time.”
Mendler: Data centers are ideal satellite ground stations due to existing infrastructure
“So data centers honestly become like a good spot to put them at because they have the power in the backhaul already set up.”
Mendler: Northwood avoids concrete pads to eliminate ground station permitting delays
“One advantage of the way that we're building our systems is we don't need to lay like a concrete pad, which can add Weeks to months to your timeframe, especially when you need to like do permitting and all that.”
Mendler: Ground infrastructure lets Northwood operate free from launch schedule constraints
“It's very convenient. We can work on our own schedule. I mean, we have different challenges cause you know, you're going to different countries and they have their own local regulatory regimes and all that, but we are not constrained by launch schedules, which…”
Mendler: Northwood is developing tech to track changing beam widths dynamically
“And we're excited through you know, the tech that we're developing to be able to track the beam with us. As it changes for more dynamic trajectories.”
Mendler: Government and defense contracts are a near-term focus for Northwood
“No, it's very near term. It's very real term. Very real term. Very, very real. Yeah. Across a number of different applications.”
Mendler: Northwood pursues satellite hardware partnerships rather than building in-house
“I think like so far we've been pursuing partnership there, but like if the need presented itself to stretch onto that side, we have amazing engineers that would be very capable of doing something like that.”
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Mendler: Power limits space data generation while ground infrastructure limits throughput
“I mean, like, our biased answer is that ground is, is really critical for that. Obviously, it's not the only thing. Like, I think you know, to unlock the innovation, like, you know, power is a huge constraint for space, and so, you know, being able to do more …”
Mendler: The space economy will consolidate into dominant infrastructure platforms
“If I were to, like, look forward into the space industry, I think you know, if you analogize to the internet, like, you have a couple of kind of platform infrastructure plays that really wind up becoming enmeshed across the internet. And, you know, it's not li…”
Coogan: Bridgit Mendler Is an Underrated Voice for Techno-Optimism
“She's just, like, doing probably more positive techno-optimism, like, proselytization... She is, she's a very, very important voice, very underrated, whereas, like, a lot of the a lot of the techno-optimist people, like, we exist in this, like, echo chamber.”
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 SOURCERYLEDGER | CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 1 | 22 | — | full record on Sourcery → |
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| TBPNLEDGER | CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 1 | 14 | — | full record on TBPN → |