Matt Gialich

People have come to us from people that have emailed us, the people that have said, investors that have then came over the fence and worked for us, people we go out and recruit.

People I've spent, you know, our current COO, I spent over three years just talking to.

Oh, really?

Saying like, hey, this is what I'm doing.

When are you interested?

And, you know, he was early at a little company you've probably heard of called SpaceX.

And to get some of this.

To get some of those people that are just really ingrained, also have a lot of capital.

It's not like SpaceX has done bad for these people that were pretty early at the company, right?

But to be able to convince them and get them kind of excited about a new push into the cosmos is really what pushes people over the edge.

I would say most of the team at Astroforge isn't working for the money.

They're working for the journey and the adventure.

We're all on an adventure.

Let's go see where it takes us.

So it's, yeah, I mean, look, those are two different questions, right?

It's not that I actually got interested in mining asteroids.

In early 2021, I went to JPL and looked at a mission called Europa Clipper.

It's a mission that's going out to a moon.

It's about $5.5 billion planetary mission.

Amazing mission.