Grega Milčinski is the founder of Sinergise, the company behind Sentinel Hub & EO Browser which recently got acquired by Planet. While the deal of the acquisition isn't closed just yet at the time of publishing, we discuss the story behind Sinergise, how it's more of an engineering than remote sensing company and why they decided to get acquired.
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About Grega:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(02:05) - Sponsor: Steven Feldman
(03:16) - Conversation Begins, Grega Describing Himself
(04:51) - Addressing the recent acquisition by Planet
(07:27) - A Physicist Who Didn't Finish his Studies
(12:28) - The Origin Story of Sinergise
(23:12) - How Copernicus Data Got Managed by Sinergise
(27:05) - Sinergise's ties to agriculture projects
(30:27) - Machine Learning
(34:32) - Sinergise's 2022 revenue
(36:09) - Sentinel Hub's business model
(39:27) - Sentinel Hub's Value is Easy Access
(42:09) - Marketplaces are hard
(49:30) - The story of EO Browser
(55:24) - EO browser as a marketing tool
(57:46) - Grega's favourite Sentinel Hub Use Cases
(01:00:52) - Community & Hosting Competitions
(01:04:31) - Money Talk: Bootstrapping
(01:08:08) - Why Get Acquired (by Planet)
(01:12:28) - Book/podcast recommendation
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