@GioPandolfi
WE HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY @esa AS A CONSORTIUM PARTNER FOR €1.2 MILLION PROJECT LYRA 🇪🇺 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Alongside other European top-tier companies we will work to connect unmodified Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to the upcoming sovereign IRIS² constellation.
👉🏻 leaf.space/leaf-space-sel…View quoted post on X
I don't have all the answers here, but I have thought about this a *lot*, so hopefully I have some:
1) Society needs both great men and Great Men. Every man should aspire to be the former; aspiring to the latter is unwise, as "the true road lies in quite another direction."
2) Life is WAY easier when you integrate your personal and professional life to the maximum degree. I try (extremely hard) to be the same person to my wife, kids, friends, co-workers, and strangers on the internet. Then fun time, family time, and work time can all use the same oh-so-finite minutes of the day!
2a) Tactically — bring your kids/family along with you on adventures. My kids have been to some incredibly non-kid-friendly places: space conferences, podcast recordings, industrial facilities, rocket launches, etc. And those adventures have been are some of my (and their!) most treasured memories.
3) You absolutely must become a morning person. Sorry.
4) I found that fatherhood was the ANSWER to my hunger in many ways. I was ambitious, certainly. But having kids made me realize that "ambition" is kinda fake; it's striving without a true end goal. (No, fame, riches, and "doing something important" are not true end goals.)
4a) As soon as you look your own child in the eyes — now THERE'S an end goal. Ineffable to anyone who hasn't had a kid, maybe, but I had an immediate, intense desire to keep my kids safe, and loved, and fulfilled. And a lifetime of anxious wondering if I was doing the right thing just washed away... there was the right thing, in my arms!
4b) Goals are awesome. I love goals. They are how I find motivation. But I have learned through a lot of trial and error that goals that focus on Me Me Me are unfulfilling even if I achieve them. Naked ambition is the ultimate Me Me Me goal... and it's much better to set goals about who you want to be to other people. (I need to write more about this; it's basically Alasdair Macintyre's read of Virtue Ethics, if folks are curious.)
4c) A tweet that has always stuck in my mind forever: "oh you're "high agency"? that's cool, what can other people rely on you for?"
5) If I've learned just one thing about "difficult" experiences in life, it's that as soon as you increase the difficulty level further, what you did before seems easy. Like the pre-kid life to me, now.
Therefore, the answer to feeling like you can't possibly be a great dad and great in your career.... is to have even more kids!! (Kidding. Kinda.)View quoted post on X
The good folks at @leaf_space just launched a space layer in addition to their existing ground network. TreeNet is... designed to transform satellite clusters into shared orbital mesh networks, delivering continuous connectivity to space assets and simplified ops. @GioPandolfiView quoted post on X
🚀 20 satellites. 1 launch.
Thanks to our customers and partners for your trust in Leaf Space.
🔗 Designed by João Ricardo Becker—spot the constellation?
🔗 leaf.space
#SpaceX #Gsaas #NewSpace #LEOP #LeafSpaceView quoted post on X
Building rockets was sexy. Building ground stations made money.
Fresh @RocketsRadars pod: @GioPandolfi shares how @LeafSpace pivoted from building rockets to controlling hundreds of satellites worldwide.
From Milan garage to Series B. Every detail included.
400 → 4,000 satellite passes/month. €35M raised.View quoted post on X
