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40 Minute Mentor is on a mission to raise aspirations and inspire the next generation of category-defining Founders, through powerful career stories and inspirational mentorship. From purpose-led Founders to Olympic champions; learn first-hand from today’s successful leaders on what it takes to be brilliant, all in just 40 minutes. 40 Minute Mentor is one of the UK’s top Business and Careers podcasts and can be found on all popular podcast platforms, including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.
Rafel Jorda Siquier: Solving the Earth’s biggest challenges from space with Open Cosmos
40 Minute Mentor
43 minutes
7 months ago
Rafel Jorda Siquier: Solving the Earth’s biggest challenges from space with Open Cosmos
In today’s 40 Minute Mentor episode, we’re joined by Rafel Jorda Siquier, Founder and CEO of Open Cosmos, the UK-based satellite company on a mission to monitor and combat climate change.
Founded in 2015, Open Cosmos delivered its first satellite in record time with a team of just five people. Since then, the business has scaled to over €100 million in satellite contracts, a team of over 130 employees in Spain, Portugal, Greece and the UK, and $50 million in Series B funding from leading Investors.
In today’s episode, you’ll find out more about Rafel’s journey into entrepreneurship, lessons from scaling such a successful business and the important role of satellites in combatting climate change.
📚 Episode Chapters:
➡️ A surprising route into aerospace engineering [03:15]
➡️ The origin story of Open Cosmos [07:30]
➡️ The huge impact of data [11:30]
➡️ The decision not to fundraise straight away [14:15]
➡️ More about today’s episode sponsors [18:30]
➡️ Scaling the team & attracting high-performers [23:40]
➡️ Spotting great talent & Rafel’s secret weapon [31:30]
➡️ Using data to tackle climate change [39:50]
🔍 Find out more:
✨ Connect with Rafel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaeljorda?originalSubdomain=uk
✨ More about Open Cosmos: https://www.open-cosmos.com/
📣Learn more about today’s sponsor:
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40 Minute Mentor is on a mission to raise aspirations and inspire the next generation of category-defining Founders, through powerful career stories and inspirational mentorship. From purpose-led Founders to Olympic champions; learn first-hand from today’s successful leaders on what it takes to be brilliant, all in just 40 minutes. 40 Minute Mentor is one of the UK’s top Business and Careers podcasts and can be found on all popular podcast platforms, including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.
