From idea to launch in five months with two people
From Building the Space Superhighway: Service Stations in Orbit on Deeptech Decoded, with Ashi Dissanayake.
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Yeah. And actually then it's a very good pressure cooker, right? Like in a way, but it's the not a zero sum game at the same time. Even if you're in the same industry targeting even similar profiles that you're always guys open to each other and with the exchanges. But then actually that brought my mind the remarkable pace you and your co-founder have. Like my goodness, um, I have worked with really various, various companies, various teams. And I, since I observed this 2024, when you popped up on the launch list and ever since then I've been following your story as you know, and really, how did you pull this? Like maybe then let's, let's start literally from the, what did you need to build?
Mm-hmm. Thank you.
And until now, there are still two people, if I'm not mistaken. Four people now.
No, we are four people now and then we have an external software team. So just in the mechanical side, we are four people. So, but our first mission was just two people and yeah, it was a very crazy ride. It was crazy. We built that the whole like from idea to launch, idea to integration, was five months. And then it was a crazy ride.
Okay, then let's try to imagine, can you help us understand what exactly you're building? And if you need to break it down, I have a feeling that you can also help us understand the timelines you have in mind. Like what exactly you're building and what are the critical components of the mechanism, the system that you're building? And where are we today with your very first launch? Like what did you, which milestone did we? achieved and then like an onion layer. How are you planning to build this moving forward?
our timelines are very short. It's like couple of months before we have to reach the next milestone because that's how we like to move. We don't like to spend too much money and then work on anything for too long because we want to test, we want to iterate and we want to get the data and then improve. So that's our mindset. So I guess that's why we move very fast. And that being said, we also learn a lot by doing how we operate.
