Space Business Podcast Space Business Podcast #98 Jesse Klempner: McKinsey & Company
My guest this week is Jesse Klempner, a partner in McKinsey’s Washington DC office. McKinsey is focusing more on space recently and has published a number of interesting articles (see below for some examples). We discuss why McKinsey is paying more attention to space now and how corporates can and do work with space, among other topics. Enjoy!
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Example McKinsey space articles:
Space: The missing element of your strategy
Space launch - are headed for a shortfall?
The potential of microgravity: How companies across sectors can venture into space
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:45 Why McKinsey is focusing more on space now
5:15 Getting space & non-space companies to cooperate
9:35 Taking the friction out of space
14:07 Companies integrating space as an enabling technology
18:29 Space mining
22:17 Space-based solar power
23:33 Lunar business models
25:14 Talking about space with the biggest companies in the world
29:15 Successful case studies of corporates implementing space
31:05 Successfully implementing new tech in an organization
31:47 How corporates can inform themselves
34:01 Most exciting space use case
36:15 Favorite space business model if you were an entrepreneur
37:31 Sci Fi