Varda: Space Drugs & Hypersonics
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2023
- Mike and Jake host Varda Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund partner and co-founder of Varda Space Industries, to talk about venture capital investing, Varda’s efforts to make drugs in space, and why the Air Force is interested in using their orbiting pharmaceutical lab to help test hypersonic weapons.
For those who like #military #technology #airforce #aviation #aerospace #space #pharma
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Show Notes
(00:47) intro
(05:00) Varda’s connection to Palantir and Anduril
(06:22) Varda’s origin story
(08:58) how to find a co-founder
(11:42) why drugs
(13:23) naming the company
(15:39) the space capsule
(17:08) Falcon 9 launched into space
(19:00) why Ritonavir
(22:19) patent a space drug?
(26:47) stuck in orbit?
(28:27) how it comes back to Earth
(30:20) how the Air Force became a customer
(33:40) China’s hypersonic news
(34:23) Varda’s Air Force STRATFI contract
(37:14) Varda’s mission
(39:17) Silicon Valley and Congress
(42:48) Defense tech investing
(47:31) lightning round
(56:00) outro - Наука та технологія
Listening at .75 playback speed is helpful.
Normally I watch at 1.75-2X speeds. Not this time during the intro monologue. Spaceman making drugs in space, stimulated/high himself enough, accelerated talking, I had to slow him down to .75x speed. 😎✅😃☣️⛹🏻💉
His hair reminds me of Lloyd Bridges on movie Airplane…. When Lloyd said “I picked the wrong time to quit sniffing glue” before he jumped out of the window.. 😎
Good content. Smart, aggressive man. Should add to the amazing 21st century advancements.
There are many exciting manufacturing possibilities in space. They’re evaluating a manufacturing process to develop artificial human retinas, which can only be perfectly shaped in microgravity. They can also make incredibly strong metal parts (for exotic applications of course) that are possible with microgravity. Fascinating stuff.
That was fun, I have no idea what you said, but great pod. 🤓 Great stuff!
At a rate of 3 "you know"s per second, it is impossible for me to follow this interview any more. Love the others by the way and will go watch another, about Fat Amy. Cheers!
That guy's faster than an F-15!
I feel that this interview kinda assumend that the audience knows a lot more about Varda that what is shown... So they manufacture pharma products in space? What is the benefit/process of this? What is the difference of manufactuing them in orbit than on earth? the core of their business was touched on, then it was moved on...
Wow...lots of dialogue in this episode to unpack...pretty sure Delian has not slept in a very long time. And he flys a plane...great...pretty sure he doesn't get to task saturation very often.
I think the reason he speaks so fast is so he doesn't turn into a balloon and fly away.
listen on 0.75 speed
Cocaine's a hell of a drug
So, we just learned that management at Varda is 100% incompetent. They built and launched this thing without permission, IN ADVANCE, to bring it back?
Sounds like serious mismanagement to me. If I was an investor, I would demand the CEO resign.
It reminds me of a startup for a company that wanted to build spacecraft that are "Open Source" in the US.
They tried to hire me, and I said: " Oh so HOW will you get past the ITAR requirements that state you CANNOT make 'open source' spaceflight hardware in the US?"
They had no answer and closed their doors a few weeks later (they researched what I said and realized their business model was impossible in the US)
The man is right. Jason is the worst.
Of course! ...they found a "new form" for the drug crystal...to renew the patent... otherwise it's just a humanitarian mission.
There was a 0% chance they were ever going to do the existing formulation because it's probably off patent or nearly so.
So basically this episode is an advertisement. Not really anything noble here.
Still among the best defense acquisition shows out there.
Edit: He won me back some with the Mandarin Moon stuff.