Switching from aerospace to data centers

Yeah. Um, I didn't expect to be doing software or data centers. I'll honest with you. Um, before this, I was aerospace engineer founded this reusable rock program back in England and, um, had lots of fun there, uh, launching rockets. And I thought I'd be doing that forever. Um, and during the time really, uh, you know, I was like, can we create some sort of software to to find issues in our designs before we get to launch manufacturing. Because if you can find those issues ⁓ before manufacturing, you save a ton of money ⁓ preventing manufacturing issues. ⁓ And then if you find issues before launch, well, that means ⁓ you have a successful launch. ⁓ it was at that time where we had all the Boeing planes falling out of the sky. And, um, uh, you know, we had aerospace companies reaching out. at Embraer, uh, Boeing and a few others where we was, uh, were interested. And we were like, we'll probably make a company out of this. And, uh, we did. And that's when we applied to, uh, YC we got in and then we moved to the States. And, uh, you know, we go through the sales process with these aerospace companies and they like it. And then the final stage is the security and they're like, okay, show us that you're US citizens. was like, well, we're not US citizens. And at that point, we were like, like, this is not good. What do we do? But luckily, it was at the same time, we had, we kept having data center companies reaching out to us, like, hey, you know, this seems really interesting. Can we try this out? And then? And then ⁓ we're like, sure, let's let's see, you know, at first, we didn't really, we didn't really entertain it.

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but then we were like, okay, let's see what these guys want. And we spoke to them and ⁓ it was great from there on. So we switched our focus from aerospace to data centers and critical infrastructure. And yeah, that's how we got it.

I'm still keeping a little piece of you at like, my gosh, I still want to go back to the aerospace domain.

I mean, look, data centers are exciting. What's happening today is, ⁓ you know, it's incredible where all these companies are building the infrastructure to get to AGI and, and super intelligence. ⁓ It's just, it's just incredible. I I go to some of these flagship projects, where they're building these insane, insane projects. And I'm like, wow, this is, you know, they're building

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the smartest thing that has ever existed here, right here. ⁓ So in that sense, it's very, very exciting. And in fact, the build out for AI infrastructure today as a proportion of US GDP is bigger than the Manhattan Project and Apollo programs. So it definitely feels like a very, very ⁓ historic moment. And we play a part in that, a small part in that, but it's very exciting. That said, know, rock is always fun. So. ⁓ I go to rock launches every now and then, critical infrastructure and AI infrastructure is the present and the future.