Cold Star Project
The Cold Star Project digs into the challenges of scaling fast that tech and Space manufacturing founders encounter. Money does not solve all problems--so what now?
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REPLACEMENT: Ex-Pentagon Software Chief Says 80% of Your Job Is Already Gone (opens the original)
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80% of your daily workload didn’t vanish because you were laid off: it’s because autonomous software simply took over.In this episode of the Cold Star Project, we sit down with Nicolas Chaillan, the first Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. After famously walking away from the Pentagon to sound the alarm on a legacy bureaucracy losing the software race to China, Nicolas has engineered a media enterprise run entirely by autonomous AI agents with zero human employees. Now
The Hard Truth About Building a Space Business | Daniel Faber, Orbit Fab (opens the original)
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What's the hard truth about building a space business?For years, the commercial space industry was defined by optimism. Lower launch costs, new investment, and ambitious founders created the belief that space companies could scale quickly. The reality has been far more complex.In this episode of the Cold Star Project, I sit down with Daniel Faber, founder of Orbit Fab, to discuss the hard lessons learned from building one of the commercial space industry's most recognized in-space logistics comp
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