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Rob Demillo - Next Gen Compute in Space with Sophia Space

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In this episode of 'Building The Impossible,' host Jocelyn Houle talks with Rob DeMilo, CEO of Sophia Space and venture partner at Spark Labs Global. Rob shares his unique journey from working at NASA and MIT to becoming a serial entrepreneur with seven exits and IPOs. He discusses the necessity of shifting from a scientific to a CEO mindset, the challenges of innovating in space, and the future of deep tech that’s worth investing in. Rob's current venture, Sophia Space, aims to move cloud servers into orbit, addressing issues like power consumption and cooling by using space as a solution. They’re developing self-sustaining, modular servers called tiles designed to function efficiently in space, offering applications ranging from missile tracking to real-time weather prediction. Rob emphasizes the importance of building one working component first and maintaining a unified hardware-software approach to ensure success. This episode is a deep dive into the future of computing and the strategic steps needed to go from lab to launch successfully.

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In this episode of 'Building The Impossible,' host Jocelyn Houle talks with Rob DeMilo, CEO of Sophia Space and venture partner at Spark Labs Global. Rob shares his unique journey from working at NASA and MIT to becoming a serial entrepreneur with seven exits and IPOs. He discusses the necessity of shifting from a scientific to a CEO mindset, the challenges of innovating in space, and the future of deep tech that’s worth investing in. Rob's current venture, Sophia Space, aims to move cloud servers into orbit, addressing issues like power consumption and cooling by using space as a solution. They’re developing self-sustaining, modular servers called tiles designed to function efficiently in space, offering applications ranging from missile tracking to real-time weather prediction. Rob emphasizes the importance of building one working component first and maintaining a unified hardware-software approach to ensure success. This episode is a deep dive into the future of computing and the strategic steps needed to go from lab to launch successfully.

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