367 | Ashlee Vance: The Misfits and Geniuses Winning the New Space Race
The Realignment
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The Wild West of Space
The Wild West of space is probably like an awkward phrase that I've kind of gotten stuck on anyway but it's the way way I feel. In my book I tell the story of this company called Firefly, which was acquired by a guy named Max Poliakov who was a OBGYN turned software magnet turned rocket here. You know he's like a very larger than life, hard drinking, hard living character he's a he's a wonderful guy but I mean this is not this is as far as from like MIT. So, you know, it's this mix, it'sthis mix of setting out to explore but also like a bit of like barely controlled chaos behind all this.
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