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It was great being back at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business talking with our friends at the Defense and Dual Use Technology Club at Berkeley about Space Kinetic Corp.'s trajectory and the lessons we've learned along the way!
🚀 Mission Meets Market: Week 6 After Action Review (AAR) Week 6 brought us full circle — from zero to one. For our final session, we were joined by founders and investors who are living the earliest, hardest, and most rewarding chapters of building companies for national security. A huge thank you to Ryan Sullivan from Space Kinetic Corp., Brian Retherford from Aventra Defense Systems, and David Bloom from The House Fund for an honest, grounding conversation on what startup building actually looks like 🙏 A few takeaways still sticking with us: 👉 Stress test your core convictions, then hold them tightly. There is an enormous amount to learn from others, but the founders who last know which beliefs are load-bearing and which ones should stay open to revision. 👉 Expand your surface area of luck. Luck isn't random...it's a function of who you meet, what you build in public, and how often you put yourself in rooms where things happen. 👉 In defense, supply chain constraints aren't a late-stage problem. If you're building hardware for national security applications, designing around supply chain from day one isn't optional. That's a wrap on Mission Meets Market for the year. 🥂 To every attendee who joined us — thank you. 🚀 #MissionMeetsMarket #DefenseTech #DualUse #BerkeleyHaas #DDU #NationalSecurity