
Robinhood & Aetherflux Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt: It's Time To Commercialise Space
Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder & CEO of Robinhood, has a vision that the Earth will one day be like Saturn - with rings in outer space.
Baiju's latest company is Aetherflux: building solar panels in space, with energy harvested continuously from the sun, and transmitting it back to Earth or directly to AI infrastructure in orbit, via laser.
The economics of space-based energy are becoming interesting, and the target metric is straightforward: get cost per GPU hour competitive with Earth. Baiju thinks there's a real path there within five to seven years.
In this episode:
- Why AI made space…
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