"Liftoff. We have a liftoff."
"It's interesting to talk about,
really where is there money to be made in space?"
"This is not the internet where you build
up a huge user base, and then you figure
out how to monetize them later."
"There's a subset of the community
not named SpaceX, not named Blue Origin.
And this is like March Madness.
It's one and done.
I got one shot to get to the end,
or else, I'm either going to fail, run out of money,
or be gobbled up by someone else."
"There're a lot easier ways to make money,
than building a rocket company."
"Oh look, it is painfully hard. It doesn't matter
whether it's a rocket or anything,
doubling production is just a really tough thing to do."
"Startups are super tough, and incredibly tough
in this industry, so unfortunately I think a lot
of those companies are going to fail."
"I think space is the final frontier.
I think you see so much excitement and so much
interest because the potential is real."
"Once you have that cheap access to space,
now you have entirely new business models
that close that didn't before."
"The way that people have made money, commercially in space,
has been like just bouncing signals off the satellites
and so industrialisation of space
is like a new sector for space."
"The real thing we want is, not just to make something profitable in space,
but to make being in space profitable, for everyone."