De-Risking a Lofty Enterprise

Payam Banazadeh, Capella Space
In conversation with: Matt Harvey, Stanford University

Payam Banazadeh, the founder and CEO of Capella Space, explains how the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight in 2014 led him to focus on improving satellite infrastructure. He describes the first stage of the company as an exercise in systematically retiring a series of risks.