Kevin Lansten, CEO, Morpheus
“Space is an economic environment. People are trying to build businesses. Those that can react the demands of the customers effectively are the ones that are going to win”Source : SpaceNews Interview
Richard Rumelt, Professor at Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Consultant
"The core of strategy work is always the same, discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions to deal with these factors."
Ethan Barajas, CEO, Icarus Robotics
“When you go to space, you need hands to do things. It is going to be maintenancing a satellite or a data center or a large piece of infrastructure. Right now we dangle an astronaut on a tether and have them fix Hubble with a ratchet. That’s not what the future is going to be. It is going to be autonomous labor.”Source : SpaceNews Interview
Paolo Pino, CoFounder, CTO, Volta Space Technologies
“Everytime you go to space you bring with you some payload. You have to make some compromises depending on the resources you want to have available. You have to give up some of that payload mass in order to bring on additional battery mass and have more energy. If you want to use the same reasoning on the moon, you will quickly become pretty much prohibitive”Source : Lisa Dreher Tech and Space Leaders Show
John Mackey, CEO & Co-Founder, Mbryonics
“The problem with space is you are working across different orbits from cislunar to LEO. So various different link distances, different radiation environments. And than in LEO you ‘ve got satellites moving in great speed.”Source : SpaceNews Interview
CJ Cornell, Entrepreneur, Investor, Author, Educator
"Some fields undergo so many fundamental changes so quickly that before we realize it, the lessons of the past no longer apply."