Episode · This Week in Startups · 2022-05-21
Jason Calacanis & Alex Fielding: books mentioned on This Week in Startups
Privateer Space CEO Alex Fielding: cleaning up space junk with Steve Wozniak + Behind the scenes of working for Jason | E1465
First, Jason and Molly reflect on their time in previous tech recessions (03:06). Then, Privateer Space CEO Alex Fielding joins to discuss solving the space junk problem (18:02), the difficulties of mapping debris (33:25), and more.
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Angel
“and then he had this tweet um like a week later or something and this was around the time that his book angel came out and so he tweeted out uh tweet a selfie of you and my book and maybe we'll pick you to come watch um blade runner 2049”
Plugged Angel
“he was like all right well i'm gonna give you this project to work on um it's uh to organize thirty is so specific unless jason you know as jason's ideas are it was uh i want you to organize 30 dim sum meetups across the us for uh my book um i was like awesome cool”