Bridgit Mendler of @NorthwoodSpace says the builders of the early internet bet on a direction without knowing exactly what it would become, and the space industry is in that same moment now:

"For folks that were early with the internet, there's no way they would've foreseen what the internet is today. But they were betting on a direction... and look what we have today."

"I think we're in a similar moment with the space industry where we don't know what is going to be built. A year ago today, would we think that everybody would be talking about orbital data centers? No way."

"But it's captivated the public imagination and who knows what's gonna come next... The whole thing that we're about is taking companies further faster. Taking space missions further faster."

"If you analogize to the internet, you have a couple of kind of platform infrastructure plays that really wind up becoming enmeshed across the internet... There are a few that wind up becoming really influential and fundamental."

"Cloud is one that we analogize to a lot and we are inspired by. And we wanna be one of those companies."

@BridgitMendler