00:00I'm curious what this ecosystem looks like broadly. This is a day on which we are focused on one company
00:05in particular, not to belabor the metaphor, but if there were a solar system, SpaceX seems very much to be
00:10at the center of it and so much is orbiting around it. What is that community like? How much opportunity
00:15is there as you see it?
00:16Well, I mean, it's a very important day for the entire industry. You know, we're proving to investors that a
00:21company that started with a mission to make life multi-planetary has been proven to be able to generate revenue,
00:29go public, satisfy investors and make a lot of people very rich by investing in this company.
00:36So it's a huge, it's a very, it's a shifting point in the space industry because there was a, there's
00:41going to be a pre SpaceX IPO and a past SpaceX IPO for all the startups ecosystem.
00:46For us, what it means, we're a big group of people working on the technology that will help life become
00:51multi-planetary and it goes through, you know, orbital space station to the moon, the cislunar economy and how we
00:58bring all of that onto Mars.
00:59So, yes, how does it work? You're identifying foods that will survive or you're creating foods and other materials and
01:08is it just for a human consumption?
01:09So initially we started seven years ago from NASA Ames in San Francisco. We worked on a conceptual lunar greenhouse
01:16that can be applied in the future for Mars.
01:18And of course, when I started, I have a financial background. You know, people were like, who are you going
01:22to sell this greenhouse to? There is nobody on the moon and nor neither on Mars.
01:25And I was like, well, we're going to spin up the technology and find application on Earth. So from the
01:30lunar greenhouse concept that we developed, we did a technology transfer and we built terrestrial greenhouses that are very efficient
01:36and that we sell to ingredient company.
01:38Our biggest customer has been L'Oréal, so a cosmetic company buying our greenhouse. We sell the equipment. They pay
01:44us services to operate the system. That's how we make money.
01:48Then we keep on going with the NASA program. You know, we're very dependent on the rockets, on the lenders,
01:53on what's NASA direction.
01:54And so, you know, we've been for the past seven years, people were like, you're a little bit early on
01:58the markets. Well, it feels like now I'm not early. I'm actually right on time because this is about to
02:04happen with the moon base.
02:05And so, yeah, so we have the infrastructure, the equipment. And in terms of selecting the crops where we build
02:10a database of over 150 different species, we know how to grow, you know, from microgreens to perennial to dwarf
02:18trees and being able to provide a very diverse diet to astronauts in space.
02:24One part that is important about the greenhouse is not only about the food, it's really about the oxygen and
02:28the CO2.
02:29Because with 50 square meters of controlled environment greenhouse, you can actually produce all the calories that are needed for
02:36a human to live in space.
02:37But most importantly, you cover the oxygen need and you recycle the CO2 into oxygen and you purify all the
02:43water.
02:43So it is like pods, machine, greenhouse full of life. They are actually the life support system for future human
02:49experience.
02:49So fascinating and so critical.
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