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Makes sense, not a lot of space companies to begin with, much less with people that have a startup mentality. Feel like the culture at Boeing or NASA is going t
by preommr 4y ago
Makes sense, not a lot of space companies to begin with, much less with people that have a startup mentality. Feel like the culture at Boeing or NASA is going to be very different from the one needed for a pioneering startup.
And even then it's only a handful of investements, with how much liquidity is/was in the market not surprising that people got a few million for moonshots given how the potential for a whole new industry.
- schrectacular 4y agoPun intended I hope!
- themanmaran 4y agoConversely- I put together a list of all the Space industry startups that YC funded over the last few years[1], thinking it would be entirely "ex-SpaceX" founders. But it turned out to have a pretty distributed mix: [1] https://havewelanded.com/yc-space-sector-investments#:~:text=Who%20are%20the%20founders https://havewelanded.com/yc-space-sector-investments#:~:text...