Ariel Ekblaw

I decided to split my time between Boston, where my MIT lab and the team is, and then bring a little bit new energy by moving to New York and kind of expanding my sphere of activity.

And so that has been really delightful and a good change of scenery for me.

I lived in Boston for 10 years, so it was time.

I think that counts.

That's a great question.

In the team, we're in basically a startup mode constantly.

And so something that my chief of staff and I always think about is survival.

Survival level fundraising, surviving in the global economy, survival in all of these different ways that a young fledgling startup has to think about.

I would love to get to a point at the end of the year where I've taken care of my team.

We're pretty well funded.

We have the pathway to really do the meaningful work that we want to do in orbit.

And I can shed some of that survival scale mentality.

Mm-hmm.

And so I actually think one of the things that's missing that she did such a great job of calling out is let's not get obscured.

Absolutely, we should think about AI safety.

Absolutely, we should think about all of the amazing ways to integrate this miraculous technology.

But let's remember that there are still fundamental pockets of humans who need help in a less technologically driven way.

Maybe technology is part of the solution, but go and remember that while we're solving really complex problems that AI brings us that are new, we still have some really fundamental.

Yeah.

What about clean water?