Dark side { Moon & Moonshots }
The past few weeks in space revelations have ranged from the release of Avi Loeb’s “Extraterrestrial”, one of the most fascinating scientific reads in recent times to the astounding testimonies by Ryan Graves, Air Force Maj. David Grusch & Navy Cmdr. David Fravor’s in Congress.
Having been a byproduct of India’s public machinery myself (throughout my schooling)and my fathers’ entire career at Doordarshan, the admiration for public service and the folks who work in public service organizations while not being lured to go work for the private sector in itself is a fascinating case study.
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But insanely proud of ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization & India’s public infrastructure that for successfully landing Chandrayaan-III on the moon!
?Bravo & Congrats!
A 50% success in soft landing attempts (The market can learn a thing or two about soft landings)
Just the 2nd country to land on the dark side of the moon (Eclipse, the last number on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the moon would be worth listening to, again)
?All with a budget of $75M! (I would definitely still go watch Gravity with a budget of $100M and interstellar with a budget of $165M !)
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… Meanwhile in my realm of the woods, my #startup ecosystem & I complain about venture capital ‘falling’ by 53% from $76B across 9000 deals in H1, 2023 compared to $162B across 17,000 deals in the same window, 2022…
COO @ Hivel | Software Engineering Efficiency
1 年Well written Jay Krishnan ! Eclipse or Dark side of the swoon are apt names for the current funding appetite in the #startup ecosystem