If I was young today, I would work in the space industry. For decades, Western pop culture has framed orbit as either apocalypse backdrop or billionaire playground. That steady drip of doom is a mind-virus. It turns curiosity into paralysis. Kids don’t just worry about climate change; they fear it. They don’t just dislike fossil fuels; they dream of smashing the grid instead of re-engineering it. Activists scoop them up when engineering schools should. If you don't believe in the future you won't invest in it. Space is harsh, airless, and filled with opportunity. Launch costs are collapsing; a reusable highway to orbit is taking shape, and with it whole industries. Commercial stations are queued to succeed the ISS, Varda is already flying factory cargo home from orbit, and we will still be putting permanent settling on the Moon. Generation Alpha won’t just stream the countdown of yet another SpaceX chopstick event. They’ll clock in above the Kármán line. So if you’re choosing a major, or mentoring someone who is, remember: the help-wanted signs are already blinking in orbit. Look up!

Nuclear energy as a Service and the waste must be reutilised. Norway sits on 15% of world’s #thorium. A small minor fraction is enough for the whole world to consume for years. #energy #nuclear #future

In its recently submitted budget, the Space Force calls out K2 Space by name for an important collaboration in 2027: demonstrating optical data links (laser communications) in MEO for emerging space architectures, including Golden Dome. Dr. John Plumb, K2’s Head of Strategy, spoke this week with SpaceNews to describe how K2’s high power, affordable satellites are accelerating the Pentagon’s ability to conduct these laser comms demonstrations from MEO, including both space-to-space and space-to-ground links, as part of our Trinity mission in 2027. Check out the full discussion here: spacenews.com/space-force-ta…

E26: A conversation with @mattocko, the Cofounder and Co-Managing Partner of @DCVC, a firm he started with @zackbogue 16 years ago. Matt started his career at @Oracle and then went on to join a $1 billion AUM fund called Helix Investments in the 90s where he learnt the lesson that venture is 90% people from Ben Webster. Matt coined the term “deeptech” almost a quarter of a century ago with @FutureJurvetson on a late 1999 winter night when they were talking about quantum computing being an investable category. DCVC has been investing in deeptech since its inception and has invested in companies like @RocketLab , @oklo, @planet, @agilityrobotics, @SentinelOne , @RecursionPharma, @confluentinc, @EvolvTechnology and many more. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 04:45 - The Oracle Mafia 08:45 - Why venture outcomes are 90% people? 12:45 - The Great Man Theory 16:45 - What It Takes To Build a DeepTech Franchise? 20:45 - Customer trust in deeptech 24:45 - Disucssing Latus Bio 28:45 - How Moore’s Law and open-source enabled modern deeptech 32:45 - Validating nuclear energy on venture dollars 36:45 - The strategic failure of Chinese supply chain dependency 40:45 - What policy changes we need to decouple from China? 48:45 - Protecting energy markets and homeowner Equity 52:45 - How Pivot Bio disrupts global fertilizer monopolies 56:45 - The parallel journeys of Peter Beck and Elon Musk 1:00:45 - It takes a team to execute on vision 1:04:45 - Why every failed investment comes back to people 1:08:45 - First to market vs. first to scale 1:12:45 - You need a 100x better product at seed 1:16:45 - Overcoming the risk aversion of market 1:20:45 - Tidal Metals and the future of critical minerals 1:24:45 - Culture for successful organizations 1:28:45 - Closing @Peter_J_Beck @Will4Planet @RecursionChris @jaykreps