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Fireside chat with Jim about racing, keys to being a great entrepreneur, USSR vs NASA, Platinum highway vs new silk road, and much more.
About Jim:
Jim Cantrell is a well-known entrepreneur and expert in space systems and has 30 years of experience in the aerospace and high 
technology industries. Jim was part of the SpaceX founding team and served as the company’s first Vice President of Business Development. Jim founded two other successful aerospace and automotive engineering companies and has held CEO positions in aerospace and biometric software companies. Jim also played key roles in the development of Skybox Imaging (now Terra Bella) and has had developmental roles in numerous venture funded space efforts including Rocket Lab, Planet, Black Sky and Spaceflight.
Vector was founded by several members of the original SpaceX team and is a disruptive innovator that connects space startups
with affordable and frequent launch and platforms to enable space capabilities at a speed and price point never before possible. Vector has a big vision to reshape the 400 billion dollar space market by combining dedicated low-cost micro satellite launch and software defined satellites (Galactic Sky) to dramatically increase access and speed to orbit.
Space need not be the realm of the elite, and privileged few any longer. Vector was founded to break down those barriers by developing a platform to provide low cost, and reliable access to orbit. Vector allows our customers to focus on space applications and building companies around 
their technologies in space, and not the underlying launch and space hardware. This innovative boundary breaking approach applied to space will enable startups and cost conscious innovators alike to concentrate on what’s most important, their unique applications. Today innovators may have to wait years to get their products to market and orbit, no longer.
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vector-space-systems/
http://www.vintageexotics.net/
http://www.stratspace.net/