Matt Gialich

is great.

I don't come from a wealthy family.

I wasn't rich growing up or anything like that.

And I just, look, I think if you can, if you can afford to go to dinner and not have to worry about the bill, you're in a pretty good fucking spot in life.

That's it.

I don't need much more than that.

So like, let's go do what you want to do.

And I asked myself the question of if I had Elon Musk level of wealth, if I had $300 billion, what would I do?

Go try to explore the fucking universe.

So why don't I just go do that now?

That's all this company is.

Yeah, but I wouldn't have got to control where I explored or actually saw those missions go faster.

The thing that I had a real problem with at JPL was simply saying, hold on.

Our missions in spacecraft cost $4.5 million.

Europa Clip costs $5.5 billion.

It's a lot of zeros in between those two numbers.

And you don't see that in what's produced.

And I'm not saying what's produced as a NASA Class A mission isn't a really great mission, really great people work on it.

What it is, though, also is a jobs program.

And when I talk about the same reason we're not a government contractor, JPL is.