Robbie Schingler

1 appearance on the record.

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Assertion Supported

Schingler: Modern economic infrastructure relies heavily on space tech started by the military

“So much of infrastructure of our modern interconnected economy Flows through space, and a lot of people just don't know about that. Yeah, we all now have, you know, we don't know GPS and location now, and it's just, that is just back-end infrastructure for soc…”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 7:30 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

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Schingler: Planet's first clean room was a $100 deployable greenhouse from Target

“I believe it was less than a hundred dollars, which was a deployable greenhouse that was bought at Target. Then it had some HEPA filters.”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 38:25 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Insight

Schingler: Cheaper satellites enable higher risk tolerance and faster scientific discovery

“If they're smaller, they're cheaper. If they're cheaper, you can take more risk. If you can take more risk, then you can have, then, and they're cheaper. Then you can do more missions. If you can do more missions and you diversify your risk, then it increases …”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 15:00 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Insight

Schingler: Smartphone hardware capabilities and engineering processes closely match satellite requirements

“And really the insight that the team had is, what's so different about a phone from a satellite? And turns out, like, the engineering processes, the capabilities internally, All of that stuff is very similar.”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 17:41 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Insight

Schingler: Past organizational success creates rigid processes that anchor and trap engineering

“When you become successful with a particular thing in the future, that could become an anchor for you, right? And so, great, that's your success. You make a system out of it. You have all these processes, and then you actually do a requirements flow down. That…”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 26:06 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Disclosure

Schingler: Planet raised $3.2 million in its initial financing round

“Yeah, 3.2 million. We ended up having a 200 K. We also had friends and family came in a little bit.”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 36:51 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Assertion Supported

Schingler: Modern economic infrastructure relies heavily on space tech started by the military

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 7:30 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Disclosure

Planet co-founders bootstrapped initial satellite prototype with up to $50K

“It was actually three different amounts. I can't remember, but it was upwards to 50 K.”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 28:34 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Assertion Supported

Schingler: Planet's first orbital photograph captured a forested region in Oregon

“Funnily enough, the first image of That we got was a forested region in Oregon. And you know, the original idea was to count every tree on the planet. And sure enough, that was our first picture.”

Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 41:26 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

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Assertion Supported

Marshall: Planet founders shared a communal house with Apple, Google, and Stanford peers

“Yeah, no, actually, but it wasn't just NASA people. We had Students who are at Stanford, people that worked at Apple, people that worked at Google, all these places, and that created a fervor of intellectual dizziness that was always fun for us. So it was a mi…”

Will Marshall Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 13:38 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler	Dec 13, 2021	10m

Robbie Schingler

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