#36 - Aravind Ravichandran, Terrawatch Space

This week’s guest is my friend Aravind Ravichandran, previously of PWC’s space consulting group and now working on his own at Terrawatch Space. He is an expert on remote sensing / Earth observation, but I think you will find his perspectives on the space sector and space business very insightful in general. He also has his own space podcast, the Terrawatch Space podcast, where I was a guest a few weeks ago.

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Episode notes

0:00 Intro

3:05 Aravind's current activities

6:14 Aravind's thoughts on space entrepreneurship

7:47 Aravind's consulting activities

9:42 Common misperceptions investors have about the space sector

13:33 Investor familiarity with downstream EO

17:41 Whose responsibility is it to educate about space

19:21 Interesting trends in upstream EO

26:51 Hosted payloads

33:38 Intelligence layer

39:00 Ideal team for an EO intelligence startup

42:21 Forward integration

45:42 Dissemination layer

51:32 EO example/success cases

54:32 What other activities besides EO are interesting

56:35 What else Aravind is excited about in space

58:58 India space

01:04:41 Sci-Fi