Will Marshall
Will Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs PBC, a San Francisco-based Earth-imaging company he co-founded in 2010 alongside Chris Boshuizen and Robbie Schingler after working as a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford and is credited with pioneering the commercial small-satellite constellation industry, having built the world's largest fleet of Earth-observation satellites capable of imaging the entire planet's landmass daily. He is widely recognized for making high-cadence satellite imagery commercially accessible and for his advocacy of using space-based data to address climate, agricultural, and geopolitical challenges.
“Went public via SPAC in 2021 at ~$2B, stock has gone from $5 to $50 in the past year (~10x).”
Source→“We're partnering with Google to launch some of their TPUs into space. We've already launched some of NVIDIA's GPUs into space.”
Source→“Google hasn't sold a share. They're our largest single investor.”
Source→“All the cool stuff that we're doing with LLMs now is really based on just the text of the internet being absorbed into these models... But they don't know shit about the real world.”
Source→“Now, for the equivalent liftoff, SpaceX would have to be aiming at quadrillion dollar valuations.”
Source→“Most of the big tech companies went public at a few billion, not a few trillion. There's a lot of zeros in between those.”
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