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Jason Kim

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

We'll have a third Blue Ghost mission with an Oculus service and a fourth one with an Oculus service that will continue to incrementally tech refresh and upgrade as NVIDIA comes out with more modules that are even more powerful.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Yeah, the thing that keeps me up at night is the world is contested.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

Space is contested.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

There's a lot of threats.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And being a veteran myself and having the defense background, I want to make sure that our company is doing everything we can to keep our nation and our allies safe.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And so how do we deliver our rockets?

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

How do we deliver our lunar landers and our spacecraft and our AI processing so that we can keep our U.S.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

and our allies safe and then continue to expand humanity's future by having all this innovation?

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

That really is stressful, is making sure that we keep ahead of the threats.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

But when it comes to delivering on cost and schedule, we have an amazing team here.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And the things that reduce that stress is we come up with a plan, we execute it, we adapt, we continue to innovate, and we become more productive, and we steadily increase our capacity year to year.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

That's what keeps the stress away.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

But there are certain things that are out of our control, like the threats that are out there.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

You know, I think it's not controlling.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

It's more educating.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And once we educate, you know, the public about how important what we're doing is, you know, I'll give you an example.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

18 months ago, no one cared about the moon as much as they do today.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

And so it was just educating the market, educating everybody about why the moon is so important.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

You fast forward to we landed on the moon successfully.

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Firefly Aerospace CEO on the Race to Monetize the Moon

We showed that it could be done and we showed the value proposition of it.