Austin Spiegel

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@AustinSpiegel

CEO @siftstack | Former @spaceX

Los Angeles, CA siftstack.com Joined February 2023

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Austin Spiegel @AustinSpiegel Nov 5

“If you want to build a great company, if you want to be a part of the best ecosystem in the world, get your ass to Los Angeles. We’ll see you here.” Will Coffield, Riot Ventures

Sift Verified account @SiftStack Nov 5

Southern California is full of people taking on some of the hardest problems in aerospace, defense, and manufacturing. We throw Thank God for El Segundo to bring them together.

At Sift, we work with hardware engineers every day. This party is a chance to celebrate the people behind the work and connect the engineers, founders, machinists, and investors helping build what comes next.

Hear from Will Coffield at Riot Ventures, Paul Perry at @Castelion, and @AustinSpiegel, CEO of Sift, on the talent and ambition bringing this community together.

Different companies, shared ambition, and a lot of talent in one place. Thanks to everyone who joined us and keeps building here.

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Austin Spiegel @AustinSpiegel Sep 30

I had a great time joining @jcfiaschetti of @InversionSpace and Robert DeMillo of Sophia Space at @payloadspace 's Off World last week. Thanks to @JackKuhr for moderating the discussion.

Three things I wanted to get across about orbital data centers:

1. Orbit is the easiest place to put compute for anything that is not on Earth. Settlements on the Moon and Mars will be built by autonomous robots, and those robots need inference. A data center in orbit is far easier to stand up than one on a planetary surface. That makes orbital compute more than inevitable. It is a prerequisite.

2. The use cases exist today. A LEO satellite typically gets four to five ground station passes a day, most under ten minutes. Running image recognition in orbit and downlinking results instead of imagery is a real business. Missile warning and tracking is the other one. That decision loop cannot wait for a ground pass.

3. Tens of thousands of spacecraft in these constellations will need to be tested the way spacecraft are tested today, and then operated without headcount that scales with the fleet. GPUs add a layer. What happens when a GPU is interrupted or dies? The software that isolates that node, rebalances power and thermal load, and keeps the rest of the rack running must be tested as thoroughly as the hardware, and the same checks must run on every satellite once it is flying.

Getting the compute to orbit is the first problem. Proving it on the ground and keeping it running in orbit with a small team is what decides whether the constellation delivers.

Austin Spiegel @AustinSpiegel Sep 22

Tomorrow, I’ll be at Payload’s Off-World event, joining Inversion co-founder and CEO Justin Fiaschetti and Sophia Space co-founder and CEO Rob DeMillo to discuss data centers in space.

I wanted to share a few thoughts ahead of the conversation. x.com/i/article/2102…

Austin Spiegel @AustinSpiegel Sep 14

AI is coming for SaaS. Any product that is mostly a UI over someone else's data is now a weekend project. So earlier this year we asked where we actually sit.

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Sift Verified account @SiftStack Sep 14

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