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1. “A child, I've always been fascinated with space. I was one of those kids who always wanted to be an astronaut. But as I got older, I realized that they don't put overweight middle-aged Jews into space. And so I went ahead and back in the early 90s, I owned a company called Globix. We ran 20,000 miles of fiber around the world. And we were the world's largest logical peer on the internet. But in places like Eastern Europe, we couldn't reach it with fiber. So we started buying satellite transponder space. It was a company called Netset Express, building ground stations all over Eastern Europe. And that was my first foray into space. And I had been fascinated with it ever since.”

   2021-12-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP408: A Deep Dive into Terran Orbital w/ Marc Bell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “It enabled people to build satellites the size you can hold in your hand. It was literally a cube, the first ones. And it started off as an educational demonstrator, as a lot of things started off in universities, colleges and universities. They were building satellites to put in orbit to demonstrate what could be done in a small form factor. And all of a sudden, you know, the government realized that there are applications that you could do in a small form factor. And as that took off, then commercial followed. As with a lot of technology, such as the internet today started off with the government, and today it's used by us today.”

   2021-12-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP408: A Deep Dive into Terran Orbital w/ Marc Bell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Great. Well, Terran is really one of the pioneers of this industry, one of our subsidiaries, Tyvak, was founded by Dr. Jordi Pogswari, who was the co-inventor of the CubeSat. So one could say that we really are the reason why all these small sat companies exist is because of us. And the technology that we help develop.”

   2021-12-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP408: A Deep Dive into Terran Orbital w/ Marc Bell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT