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Ben Gilbert: belief

26 May 2020 Acquired SpaceX

“I think we’ll see the innovation compound now that we’re having all these CubeSats and things like that up there, much faster than we saw with only shipping a Hubble up once a decade.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
26 May 2020
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
SpaceX

Transcript context

…And why the F wouldn't you do that then? Absolutely. It's really amazing. The other one that we talked about is a sort of new market. This is from the Elon Musk book, but they built a Honda Accord instead of building a Ferrari. Everyone else thought only Ferraris would be wanted, but it turned out there's an emerging market for Accords which is unexpected and cool to see. I think we’ll see the innovation compound now that we’re having all these CubeSats and things like that up there, much faster than we saw with only shipping a Hubble up once a decade. Yup. It turns out, even the people who drive Ferraris or McLaren's don't want to drive those every day.…

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