Sinéad O' Sullivan

Sinéad O'Sullivan, space economist with a background at NASA, discusses the exciting aspects and challenges of the business of space. They explore strategy applied to the space industry, boring problems in space, building space companies in the public market, and the intersection of space and climate. Sinéad shares their concerns about the space industry and emphasizes the importance of interplanetary economics.

Sinéad O'Sullivan, a space economist and entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Business School, reveals how space plays a crucial role in various industries, from agriculture to autonomous vehicles. She discusses the booming Earth-facing space economy, driven by lower launch costs and new entrants like Amazon and SpaceX. The conversation dives into the competitive satellite landscape and the exciting yet challenging prospects of asteroid mining. O'Sullivan emphasizes that as many companies race to occupy orbital space, we might actually be running out of room.