Philip Johnston
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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We're still only 20 engineers.
like the and we have one commercial guy who came from the space force who was working on golden dome um we are so picky about who we hire like it is to a point of being very frustrating to be honest but it's the whole game it's the whole game is having a kick-ass engineering team
It was surreal.
So if you go back through my Twitter feed, I've been like shouting from the rooftops for the last like three years about this.
Contrarian, but right.
Every day I would post something about like why data centers in space are going to make sense.
And then slowly and slowly and slowly, people would start to drop hints about things.
Like Elon at one point was like,
99.999% of the energy in the solar system is from the sun.
So I'd repost that and I'd be like, we need to build data centers in space.
Like everything I would find a hook for.
I'm going to tell my mom, who's very religious, that YC said I'm a prophet.
yeah um so for people who don't know my background um spent the first five years of my career as a an engineer on the software side studying math and physics before that um undergrad and masters and then i went to mckinsey more on the commercial product side but i actually ended up doing a couple of projects with national space agencies on different satellite missions and that's where i really started to notice the launch costs coming down very rapidly
I actually had another startup before this.
And yeah, when I left that one, decided, okay, if I'm going to do another startup, it has to be something I'm like very passionate about.
And yeah, for my whole life, I've been very passionate about space.
Because I don't have a space engineering background, realized, okay, I'm going to need
the world's most kick-ass space engineers.
And actually, this is where I give credit to YC.
I was kind of blindly following the YC advice.
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