Beyond Strategy - with Krystelle Marie

Bankrupt to a 7 Billion Dollar Company - The Message Every Founder Needs To Hear Today

Episode 21

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Most people think building a billion-dollar space company is a game of pure strategy and intellect. It’s not, it’s a game of psychological endurance.

I recently spent a month in Austin, Texas, calibrating my environment and immersing myself in a room of people playing the game at the highest possible level. In this episode, I’m sharing my takeaways from that month and pulling back the curtain on one of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve ever had.

I sat down with Eric Salwan, the billionaire co-founder of Firefly Aerospace. But we didn't just talk about rockets and valuations.

In a massive podcast exclusive, Eric shares never-before-heard audio from his personal voice journals, recorded during the trenches of building the company. This is the raw, unvarnished reality of what the "Inner Game" actually looks like when absolutely everything is on the line.


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