You Don’t Have To Be A Billionaire To Launch Satellites

There’s a misconception that in order to build a hard tech company you need billions of dollars to even create an MVP. But that’s not always the case. Take Astranis for example. They got their start building a small prototype in an apartment and today they're worth more than a billion dollars and are gearing up to launch four new satellites into space on a dedicated Falcon 9 rocket. We visited Astranis co-founders John Gedmark and Ryan MckLinko to find out how they pulled it off and what lessons they have for founders who want to build a hard tech company of their own.

Special thanks to Astranis and Jason Carman for their archival footage.

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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro
02:15 - What is it?
03:50 - First steps
06:45 - Demo satellite?
09:00 - Scrappy
10:55 - Testing
12:20 - Satellites to launch