#40 Guillermo Söhnlein: NewSpace - from scarcity to abundance

Guillermo Söhnlein has been involved in the space sector for almost twenty years in various roles, including being the original founder of Space Angels Network and the Chairman of asteroid mining company DSI. We are having a broad conversation about what is going on in space right now, incl. exploring how its current success was three decades in the making, and a lot of discussion around space entrepreneurship. Enjoy!

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If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/

If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy.

Episode Notes

0:00 Intro

2:22 Richard Branson's suborbital flight

6:22 Are things accelerating up in the space industry?

9:12 Have we been prepared for things happening so quickly?

13:33 "Space Industry"

15:54 The transition to the "application phase"

20:50 The Silicon Valley mindset applied to the Space Sector

25:30 Market demand, large scale production, and general space entrepreneurship talk

36:05  The inflow of new space investors

40:00 The Oceans and Outer Space

42:32 Venus

50:17 What should the space community prioritize?

54:49 Sci-Fi