“I left Google and joined SpaceX. And I thought, well, surely they'll take this seriously. Like space orbital compute will be the next big thing. And I was told under no uncertain terms at the time that the last people who proposed something like this are no longer at the company. So I said, well, you know what? I think there's a path forward for us here… I opted to leave three months into my time at SpaceX.”

…electrical engineering. And a lot of the work that he did, his PhD was focused on SATCOM and microwave and satellite technology. Right. And my mom's a computer scientist. Right. And so she was very much like, she's actually the person who told me how to copy paste. And that changed my life. Right.

Copy-paste, very underrated quick keys. Oh, you're talking about saving an hour a day. It compounds pretty nicely.

Yeah. And so for people who don't know the why, why would we want compute in space? I think most people listening here are going to understand it, but you started this before the why existed. So I'm wondering what your why was, because there's a recent why, which has to do with, you know, a lot of…

Sure. So I've always felt like I know a secret within a secret. So the first secret is that we should put space, we should put compute in space for a number of reasons, right? One of them, like you said, is societal. Like folks don't actually want data centers in their backyards. Like that's an…

solved, right, by getting closer to the Earth. But if I translate what you're saying here to a layperson, you still need to make some decisions up in space as to what to do. So that even if it was just Starlink and Hughes satellite and all the other side of products, they still need to process…