#20: The Business of Space and Interplanetary Economics with Sinéad O'Sullivan

In this episode, I am speaking with Sinéad O' Sullivan. Sinéad is one of the most interesting people I know. She has a super interesting background - from working at NASA on space missions to working with Michael Porter on strategy.

Her official bio reads: Sinéad is a space economist whose research lies at the intersection of geopolitics, technology, and economics of interplanetary space missions. She works on behavioral science at Veriphix, Geopolitical AI at MIT, space technologies at the Center for Climate and Security, and a lot more.

Sinéad also does a lot of teaching. In fact, she has a course coming up, which I definitely recommend. It's called "The Business and Economics of Space", starting in November.

In this episode, Sinéad and I discuss her journey, the business of space, boring problems in space, strategy applied to space, challenges of building space companies in the public market among others.

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01:46: Intro & Sinéad's journey

12:28: What's exciting about the space industry today?

15:42: What should investors be wary of?

19:13: Boring problems in space

27:15: Strategy applied to the space industry

34:30: Building in the public markets in the space industry

36:53: Space and climate

42:13: Interplanetary economics

46:53: What worries Sinéad about the space industry

49:03: Wrap-up

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