The Ignored Frontier: How Urban Sky Is Unlocking the Stratosphere with Andrew Antonio
In this episode, we sit down with Andrew Antonio, founder and CEO of Urban Sky, the company treating the stratosphere like the final frontier it actually is. Andrew shares how a world-record skydive from 136,000 feet planted the seed, why the stratosphere has been ignored for 60 years while space and aviation absorbed all the capital, and how getting their butts kicked in the imagery market led to a defense breakthrough that changed the entire company. We cover reusable balloon economics, the one-button engineering philosophy, co-founder dynamics as a literal marriage, and why a global…
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