Matt Gialich

But I don't think this makes any sense.

And I think a lot of in space we get trapped in this thing of like,

We build geo satellites for the US government, but we're dual use because a commercial company is going to want them.

I find that hard to believe and hard to see.

And you'll see a couple examples here, but it's pretty rare that commercial actually takes a bite at these at any kind of level that makes a commercial viable use case.

I wanted Astroforge to be a commercial space company.

And so we did not start off with the government.

We started off with the mining industry.

What do I do with this material?

Who can I bring it to?

How can I underwrite this company differently, right?

Can I get investors to believe in the mission of trying to upend all earth mining?

That being said, at this point, we have now gone the other way with dual use, which has said, cool, now that we are developing a low cost, really cheap spacecraft that can access the cosmos,

Can we start to work with the government on it as a way where this is viable?

I'm not interested in things that are not directly applicable to what we're doing in our space mission.

If you want to go send a satellite bus to low Earth orbit, there's a lot of companies doing that.

Please go talk to them.

Don't fucking talk to me.

I'm not interested, right?

I guess the honest truth, because that kills the dream of the company.