Founder's Guide to Winning the New Space Race | ROP #57

Founder's Guide to Winning the New Space Race | ROP #57

October 22, 2025 · 39 min

About this episode

Andrew Peterson discusses how a new generation of founders is transforming the space industry by challenging traditional cost structures.

A new generation of founders is winning the new space race, and they're doing it by breaking one simple rule. In this founder's guide, A-ray Labs founder Andrew Peterson reveals the one broken "cost-plus" law that crippled the defense industry for 50 years and created the opportunity of a lifetime. We ran out of time just as we were about to dive into Andrew's incredible 3D mapping technology - we'll have to get him back for Part 2!

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