Space today is dial up internet, says the man who bet against his whole industry and built bigger. Karan Kunjur, co-founder and chief executive of K2 Space, tells Deirdre Bosa that the satellite business spent years going smaller and cheaper while he and his brother took the opposite bet, on very large, very high power satellites. He says power decides what can compute in orbit, that communities are already vetoing data centers over the strain on the power grid, and that the next Starship flight is the inflection the industry is watching. Recorded live at Yahoo Finance Invest on 12 November, in the slot straight after the Invest space panel. Every figure here is his own.
Featuring
Karan Kunjur, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, K2 Space
Deirdre Bosa, Host, Deirdre Bosa Live
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Timestamps
0:00 The next catalyst, and why power decides what can compute in orbit
1:57 Communities are vetoing data centers on the ground
3:00 Is SpaceX the biggest enabler or the biggest risk?
4:06 What a bigger rocket unlocks, and the dial up comparison
5:19 The contrarian bet on very large satellites
6:28 The customer mix, national security and commercial
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