00:45:37 · Molly O'Shea, Eric Romo
[00:45:37] S0: If you weren't president and COO, what role would you want here? Pick any role. [00:45:42] S1: Oh my gosh. Well, they don't want me in the prop team anymore. The propulsion team is so far years advanced from where I was twenty years ago. It's crazy. I look at the work that they're doing, I know how they do that. And then I look at the resumes of some of the people that we bring in, and it's oh my God, I've never gotten out here for that job. I mean, I think I invariably spend a bunch of time selling stuff in the company, so that's a big part of what I do. And again, our sales team's better than I am at that. So luckily they don't need me too much for it. What's the most fun job here? I'm trying to think. Was always a little, I'll be honest. Was always a little jealous of the folks who were really good at testing stuff. [00:46:26] S0: Mhmm. [00:46:27] S1: Like, I would go with Tom to the middle of the desert in in in Texas, and I would sit in the bunker and play with my spreadsheets all day Mhmm. And the guys were out there, you know, blowing stuff up, that was always it seemed like a lot of fun. And I always wished that I'd spent, I'd been better at that. And so I think probably somewhere in the development of test side. [00:46:44] S0: One of our sponsors is Brex, and they're all about performance. So I'll ask this quickly, but what are the biggest milestones that you're looking forward to over the next year?
00:46:44 · Molly O'Shea, Eric Romo, Molly O'Shea
[00:46:44] S0: One of our sponsors is Brex, and they're all about performance. So I'll ask this quickly, but what are the biggest milestones that you're looking forward to over the next year? [00:46:54] S1: We've gotta do an awful lot of development on Helios. We're testing that engine a lot. We've fired it hundreds of times. We need to keep doing that. We're gonna about to bring, the Helios tank, second tank out to the desert, set up the vertical test stand there. It's gonna be really exciting. Start testing on the vertical test stand. We've gotta continue to produce mirrors. We've got contracts we've announced and others that we have not, where we need to build a lot of these over the next few months. And then we're gonna continue to develop some of the other engines that we've talked about, like the Rigel engine that we announced. That's for a a wide range of programs. So lots and lots of, development on, complicated spacecraft. [00:47:31] S0: Amazing. Well, thank you so much, Eric. [00:47:33] S1: Thanks for having me. [00:47:33] S2: Hey. It's Molly. If you enjoy our interviews, check out our newsletter, sorcery.vc, where we deliver a once a week top deals and tech headlines email, and also go deeper on our podcast interviews. Subscribe to Sorcery today. And don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen. Link in description to sign up.