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▶ 136:28 · $ORIN · Orin builds the derivatives layer for trillion-dollar compute capex
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Peter H. Diamandis

The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | #266

2026-06-26 · 3 company · 0 thematic
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will marshall

Co-founder and CEO of Planet, the satellite-imaging company that operates a large fleet of Earth-observation satellites.

alex wissner-gross

Computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur and investor whose work spans artificial intelligence and complex systems. He is the founder and managing partner of Reified.

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“I'm an adviser to the company... Orin is building the modern financial infrastructure for compute... there's simply no way to hedge and justify the seven plus trillion dollars of capex... without appropriate abilities to hedge.”
—alex wissner-gross
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