Joseph Yaffe
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Joseph Yaffe
@JoeYaffe
COO & CLO @Aetherflux. Building "Galactic Brain" & the future of space-based energy. Formerly Palo Alto Managing Partner @SkaddenArps & Partner @Lathamwatkins







.@BaijuBhatt co-founded Robinhood. Now he's building something completely different - a solar panel grid in space that beams energy down to Earth with lasers at @AetherfluxUSA I mean. Why not? This is our full chat with Baiju. He's got a fascinating life story and is thoughtful and bright. The Core Memory podcast is on all major platforms and made possible by the fine people @brexHQ and @e1ventures. Come dig in. Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:01 Robinhood Was Born Here 00:03:16 Dad's Secret Dream 00:08:02 The Crisis Changed Everything 00:11:39 The Switch That Flipped 00:18:44 Why Physics, Not Finance? 00:23:11 Stanford or Bust 00:30:50 The GameStop Trigger 00:41:54 The Day Robinhood Almost Broke 00:48:54 The Space Idea Nobody Tried 00:56:56 Why Space Energy Makes Sense 01:03:20 AI's Dirty Secret: Power 01:05:55 How Atherflux Actually Works 01:11:36 Why the Company Is Called That 01:18:37 Could SpaceX Just Copy This? 01:26:27 Rivals or Allies in Space?








You can't build the future of space compute without solving the thermal management problem first. Meet Diego A. Arias, PhD, the engineer making it happen. "Thermal management is one of those top three concerns... I believe that we can solve that here."













