The race to prove which space startups are real 🚀 Philip Hover-Smoot

Podcast: Millennial Masters · with Daniel Ionescu

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

Space startups can raise hundreds of millions before their technology ever flies. Philip Hover-Smoot thinks that can distort what investors see as real progress. Philip left Scout Space, where he’d been CEO, to build Atlas Cup, a spacecraft racing league designed to make rival teams prove what their technology can do in public. His bet is that performance can become proof before revenue arrives. That matters in an industry where funding rounds can look like traction long before anything has flown. What we cover 1️⃣ Funding can look like traction Phil...