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• neutral fact_claim Jason Kakanis

  he also founded the O'Reilly alphatech Ventures group which um they seed investors and they've invested in almost 50 companies now including Four Square chartbeat which I'm an investor in 3dr Ro products Misfit Planet Labs beta brand just tons of amazing uh Investments there

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  oh your is your funer um so he I was about to say he makes these crazy bets no offense intended but I mean he he likes to do some of the stuff in your opinion yeah and amongst your peers are we going to find a signal in our lifetime in the next 30 40 50 years will we find a signal from an alien life from alien life yes or no percentage intelligent life or will we find alien life because those are two distinct things I think there's a very good chance that we will uh find uh life on other planets

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  you can go on to our website it's just planet.com it's kind of cool um yeah that cost you a million bucks and you can good domain yeah it's a pretty good domain we also have planet.org and you can sign up there to become a user of our data it's sort of in beta testing mode at the present time but you can sign up and and the idea is that there's so many applications of this data I mean we we've listed hundreds of thousands detecting fires you know helping agriculture you know there's there's just

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  in the Haiti situation they they they everyone was scrambling to take imagery afterwards but then they realized that the previous most recent satellite image was taken 5 years ago

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  we can sell our imagery um there's lots of commercial applications um I I mentioned a few um agriculture consumer mapping are people buying now people people are buying that imagery today

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  there's a huge business case there in principle but you have to be careful because the terrestrial communication costs are cheap whereas doing the Earth Imaging you can't really do that from the ground

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  the launch costs have stayed roughly the same um for the last 40 years um but what we're doing is radically changing how much capability you can put per unit kilogram in that rocket

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  we have our satellites are about a thousand of the mass of a typical satellite right so we've taken a you know three zeros of that mass and therefore you can just change the way the the the economics of it that way

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  our lifespan to be about 2 years

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  our satellites are typically 4 to 500 km so that's part of low earth orbit

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  by scanning the Earth every day you youut you will find every missing plane unless it goes straight into the water and then sinks

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  we think that there's a huge and expanding Market um basically no one's been able to get access to Earth Imaging it's being the province of big governments and big companies and by by making more of it uh we're serving a lot of other people as well

• neutral assessment Will Marshall

  we are one of the first folks to be doing that so it's it's relatively new

• bullish fact_claim Will Marshall

  we're launching this year um over 150 satellites it's more than all other satellite providers combined

• bullish prediction Will Marshall

  by the end of this year we should have daily Imaging of the planet

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  we're seeing a lot of developing countries interested in our data because they just want to track what's going on in terms of buildings in all the urban areas they just want to understand and help agricultural yield in their country

• neutral assessment Will Marshall

  governments are generally very supportive because they get to uh get information about what's going on in the world as well

• bullish fact_claim Will Marshall

  we can tell crop yield which helps Farmers to improve their yield

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  we think it's much better to what our goal is to scan the planet and see these big macroscopic changes to help us to take care of the planet

• neutral fact_claim Will Marshall

  we've launched 113 of these on 10 different launch vehicles

• neutral assessment Will Marshall

  this is not super high resolution it's we're able to see a tree and a car but not see read a number plate or see a person

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  our mission image the whole Earth every single day basically to date satellite imagery has been taken every few years the satellite imagery you find online is 3 to 5 years old um by taking an IM snapshot of the whole Earth every single day we can see changes as they happen uh that's useful for a wide variety of use cases

• bullish assessment Will Marshall

  we've actually now um launched over a hundred of these satellites it's the largest Fleet of Earth Imaging satellites in history by more than uh 10x and with these satellites as I said we our goal is to image every single point on the Earth's surface every day

• neutral fact_claim Dino Mavroucus

  the united states can build a hundred thousand gross tons of ships every year gross ton is this volumetric measure of ships so if you build you know a 200 foot ship that's different than an 800 foot ship but let's compare apples to apples a hundred thousand gross tons the chinese which you were referencing can build 23 million gross tons so they can outbuild the us 230 to one

• bullish fact_claim Dino Mavroucus

  the navy actually trusted us in this moment lives are on the line we're going to send this autonomous platform to go and rescue these folks this is not a patrol this is not maritime domain awareness this is the highest stakes of the highest things

1. 2028-03-20 by the end of this year we should have daily Imaging of the planet · Prediction · pending

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