Kenny Vassigh, founder of Caylan Space, discusses the funding and development timelines of space tech hardware compared to SaaS startups.
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“It's not something like a SAS software type of platform that you can say, you
You know, within a six month or year or two, you know, you can start having, bringing revenue and so forth.
Usually it takes, you know, space tech takes five to eight years, right?”
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