The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes
11 Aug 2025
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Matt Gallich, welcome to the show, man. Thanks for having me on, man. This is awesome. Mining asteroids? Dude, that is so far out there. I can't wait to have this conversation. But I am curious. Why mining asteroids? What are you getting off of them?
Yeah, so we're going after what are called the platinum group metals, right? Very critical resource we all use here on Earth, but they're also worth a lot of money. And why asteroids? Well... Some of the best ore sources we've ever discovered of the platinum group metals are orbiting us in space.
It's a very specific type of asteroid called a metal asteroid that we're going to go after, mine, and bring it back to Earth.
Wow. Well, we're going to dive into that deep, so I can't wait. But everybody starts off with an introduction, so here we go. Matt Galich. Matt Galich. Co-founder and CEO of Astroforge, a pioneering deep space mining company focused on extracting platinum metal groups from asteroids.
Engineering leader with over a decade of experience leading teams in high stakes technical environments, turned down an opportunity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to start Astroforge in 2022. driven by a vision to act faster and more economically than traditional aerospace giants.
A risk taker who embraces fear is a requirement for innovation, telling your team that if they're not scared, they're not pushing hard enough. I love that. I think I know what it means, but I'm curious, what do you mean by that?
Look, when you're going to go do something like attempt to mine asteroids or go travel to the cosmos, you have an option to go do that in a very safe way at a big company you've probably heard of called NASA. I probably shouldn't call them a company, right? A big government agency called NASA.
It takes a lot of guts to take highly technical people and have them kind of throw that away and say, I'm going to go join a small startup and go try to explore the universe for a fraction of the cost. We're going to take a lot more risk to make that happen. We're probably going to fail multiple times. But if we can pull it off, we'd change the world.
Those are special people and people that you rarely find. And those are the people that we hire at Astroforge, right? We hire the explorers of the future. And you kind of got to have that genie to make it work.
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