#46 Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda

This week I sat down with Delian Asparouhov, a principal at famed VC Founders Fund and also co-founder and President of Varda, a space startup focused on in-space manufacturing.

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Episode Notes:

0:00 Intro

1:47 Delian's background

3:43 How did you get involved in Space investing?

10:30 Non-obvious signs of why space attractive

17:53 Incubation projects in space

23:51 Value chain in space

30:26 Space investing opportunities 

39:53 Space companies with government dependence

45:10 What could go wrong?

47:43 Favorite ways of keeping up with the space economy

49:14 The Miami ecosystem

52:00 Sci-Fi