Ed Elson

What has happened in the past one or two years where suddenly everyone is realizing and waking up that there is this massive commercial opportunity in the space industry?

Well, I think this kind of gets to the heart of why we want to talk to you.

And it's a lot about your story.

I mean, you started this company in 2006.

For those who haven't recognized it yet, you are from New Zealand.

And, I mean, you essentially decided to build a company where there didn't seem to be much commercial opportunity at all.

And yet here we are, and you're generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and you're a publicly traded company.

So why did you start this company?

And why did you believe that this would actually be a real commercially viable business?

Why is that?

Sorry, if I could just ask, why wouldn't they employ you?

Because you weren't a citizen or you applied and they didn't accept the application?

What happened?

I think the question we're all asking is how did a young man end up deciding to build rockets and how to even do that?

If we could hear more about how that ended up happening.

At what age did you start actually building rockets?

And so you're working at school, at lunch breaks, the guy's letting you use the metalworks.

And then at what point do you start to really operationalize this?

At what point does this go from a kid using the DT workshop at lunchtime to actually building a company?

We'll be right back.