SFC 13 Lunch discussion

10/07/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

The luncheon panel was mostly business and investment related. The good quotes came from Walt Anderson:

“European space companies are good to work with because they don't have such a huge majority of their revenue form defense related contracts” (rough quote).

“Now is the time to be more institutional” (i.e. societal/legal/business institutions, not governmental

The fund that Golden Appel is part of is fully invested.

There was a short discussion on 'space branding' and a “space chamber of commerce” but nothing conclusive. Andrew Olson says that the Colony Fund is getting significant interest and is taking investments.

Now we're getting an update from John Carmack. Armadillo always has the best videos.