Dylan Taylor, founder and CEO of Voyager Technologies, is building the infrastructure that will define humanity's future in space. Through defense, space solutions, and Starlab, Voyager is working on some of the most ambitious aerospace projects of our generation. In this conversation, Dylan takes us from watching Star Trek as a kid in Idaho to becoming a publicly traded space company CEO. He shares what it's actually like to reach space aboard Blue Origin, why we're living through the biggest space boom in human history, and how space will transform our global economy.

What You'll Learn:‍

• Why space isn't an industry but humanity's eighth continent
• His experience going to outer space
• How perfect real-time information about Earth will create trillions in economic value
• Projects that Voyager is working on
• How ambition shifted from personal glory to reflected glory through leadership
• Predictions for the space industry
• The frontier innovations that will enable humans to live and work in space

Chapters:‍

01:52 From Star Trek Dreams to Space Reality
04:37 What is Voyager Technologies?
07:02 Winning the Contract to Build Starlab
09:40 Going to Space on Blue Origin
16:36 The Overview Effect and What it Feels like Going to Space
20:10 How Space Shifted Dylan's Perspective on Risk and Ambition
22:40 The Henry Crown Fellowship and Leadership Transformation
23:40 Inside Voyager Technologies' Projects
26:50 The Purpose of Starlab as a Microgravity Laboratory
31:00 Space Predictions
35:23 Space as the Eighth Continent
36:55 Perfect Real-Time Information About Earth
38:50 What Keeps Dylan Up at Night About Space's Future
41:07 Frontier Innovations in Quantum Computing and Beyond
45:15 Quick Fire Round
47:52 Outro

Follow Voyager Technologies and Dylan:
• Voyager Website
• Voyager LinkedIn
• Dylan's LinkedIn

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• ⁠LinkedIn⁠
• ⁠X⁠
• ⁠Substack

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