Ariel Ekblaw
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1,219 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Ariel Ekblaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you're in the vacuum, void, darkness of space, and you look down from your precarious position onto this really delicate, beautiful blue marble of a planet and saying, you know, holy cow, this is really something worthy of protecting.
And I think we can use space exploration, both in the science fiction notion of let's go figure out how to live elsewhere, but we can also use space exploration in the concept of what we're doing at Aurelia Institute, which is space for the public good.
Do space infrastructure in low-Earth orbit, like AI data centers, space-based solar power, my current, you know, kind of flagship project, which is our orbital biolab.
Do therapeutics and bioscience that you can only do when you're floating that you can't do on the ground.
Do that kind of stuff in space for the good of life on Earth.
Things like AI data centers, space-based solar power, and an orbital biolab.
And that, I think, is what I try to reflect in my own work, which is think of it as really hard science fiction.
So we are grounded in a bunch of pragmatic near-term things.
I'm investing in a bunch of near-term companies that I've done my best to honestly, credibly convince my LPs will give returns for an ROI-focused venture fund in the next seven years.
but also what are we aimed at?
And I sometimes think that tech investing needs a little bit more of a moral grounding or a grand aspirational grounding.
What are you aimed at?
What's the big picture why of why you're putting all this money into stuff?
And for me, that is where the dreamier, large-scale vision comes to, which is the benefit of humanity, expanding humanity's horizons and making us a space-faring species.
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