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The document discusses different sources of capital for starting and growing a business, from personal savings and loans to venture capital, private equity, and accessing public markets. It notes the importance of having reliable forecasts for revenues and cash flows to attract funding. Later stages may involve investment bankers helping the company access capital as it matures and achieves stability and predictable growth.
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Constellations Podcast Transcript Episode-82
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Episode 82 – Investment, The Importance of Early Failures and The Social Aspect
of Space
Guest: Dylan Taylor, CEO and Chairman, Voyager Space Holdings – 24 minutes
John Gilroy: Welcome to Constellations the podcast from Kratos. My name is John Gilroy,
and I'll be your moderator. Is space investment different than in other
industries. What new technology will shake the space industry next and what
are space investors currently investing in and why? These are some of the
questions we want to ask our guest today Dylan Taylor, space investor. Dylan is
the CEO and chairman of Voyager Space Holdings, a privately held global holding
company, acquiring and operating businesses in the space exploration industry.
Dylan has an extensive background in space investment and is even considered
the most active private space investor in the world, with more than 50 emerging
ventures. Dylan, you're the CEO of Voyager Space Holdings. Could you first
explain to our listeners what the heck a holding company is?
Dylan Taylor: Well, thank you. First of all for having me, it's an honor to be on Constellations.
I'm a big fan of the show. Yeah a holding company is really just meant to be a
description of an operating company, so it's really important distinction that an
operating company that has diverse interests within a particular industry or
across industries. The idea is you have a parent corporation, that parent
corporation is delivering value to subsidiary entities. In our case, these are
different emerging, highly innovative, New Space companies that we own. And
that's really the function of the holding company is to allocate capital, make
sure those companies are growing and doing well. Making sure that those
different operating subsidiaries are communicating with each other. Part of the
name of the game is one plus one is way more than two. If you can get
innovative companies working together, you can compete for larger, and larger,
and more complex mission work and capture more of the value chain. That's
really the essence of it, the holding company is essentially adding value to
subsidiary operating companies that we own.
John Gilroy: Good. And what's this relationship to venture capitalism, part and parcel of it
contrasted with that?
Dylan Taylor: I think it's different. Venture capital typically is only taking minority equity
investments in companies. They're not taking control positions. They might for
example, own 20% of a company in an investment round, whereas we're only
doing control transactions. We're acquiring at least 51% of the equity. In some
cases it's 70% or 80% of the equity, so that's one distinction. Second distinction
is with a venture capital operator, they're typically raising money from other
investors. Those investors expect a return on that investment within a specific
time frame, typically a fund life will be five years or 7 years. There's
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automatically a clock ticking the second the venture capitalist accepts money
from their investor.
Dylan Taylor: Whereas with a holding company structure, since it's a long term investment
vehicle, that capital might be returned 10 years in the future or 20 years in the
future, so it's a much longer time horizon. That would be the other distinction.
The other thing is venture capitalists. Typically they add value by opening up
their networks, making introductions, sharing best practices on how to operate
a business. But other than that, they're really not operating these companies,
right. They're sitting on the board, they're providing advice. Whereas under the
Voyager model, we are really operators. We're actually operating these
companies. We're making decisions about what to bid on, what to pursue, what
products to invest in, things like that, so it really is quite a bit different.
John Gilroy: You're not getting it forced into decisions for short term profitability, you can
look at the long picture here, is that right?
Dylan Taylor: Yeah. And that's really the essence of it. I think the industry is quite healthy, it's
doing well. But I think that the biggest challenge that I see the industry has, is
short term thinking driven by the capitalization of a lot of these companies. And
the second is a lot of these New Space companies as they're known really lacks
scale. And so with Voyager we're trying to solve both of those issues, we're
trying to expand the time horizon for investment. And we're also trying to build
scale amongst highly innovative New Space companies.
John Gilroy: I looked into your background this morning and you have an extensive
background in space investment. I think you were actually one of the early
participants in Space Angels. This is another company we had on the podcast
before. How is Voyager Space Holdings different from Space Angels?
Dylan Taylor: Yeah, quite a bit different. I have a lot of affection, especially for the early days
of Space Angels. That was founded by some close friends of mine. Guillermo
Söhnlein, Joe Landon and Eric Anderson. And so I was one of the early angels
within that group investing and a lot of these companies that they had put on
the platform. But fundamentally Space Angels, and really all Angel investment is
about very early stage capital, relatively small check sizes. For example, a
company might be formed. They might be raising, let's say half a million dollars
in their first so-called seed round. That's a classic angel fit for an angel group or
a group of so-called super angels. That's really where angel capital comes in.
Venture capital would be a little bit further downstream, companies starting to
get revenue traction and starting to scale.
Dylan Taylor: And then of course at the very end of that would be Voyager because we're only
investing to companies that are not only generating revenue, but are profitable
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and actually generating free cash flow. If you think of capitalization as almost
like a life cycle chart, the very beginning of that would be sort of bootstrapping,
an entrepreneur is putting business expenses on their credit card. The next step
would be the angel capital, a little bit further down the road would be venture
capital. And then in later stages you would get things like holding companies,
private equity and IPOs.
John Gilroy: Well then the question then is, is how is your holding company Space Holding
different from traditional type holding companies?
Dylan Taylor: Yeah, it's a great question. The most famous holding company in the world is
probably Berkshire Hathaway.
John Gilroy: Yeah, Warren Buffett.
Dylan Taylor: Warren Buffet, and just a legendary investor. But really what he's focused on is
highly cash generating businesses like Coca Cola, Heinz Ketchup, things like that,
that are just cash cows. And he's taking that free cash flow and he's investing it
back to buy more companies. It's just sort of a classic snowball effect if you will,
but he's not focused on industries, right. He doesn't really care what industry it's
in, as long as it's a healthy business and generating cash. On the other side of
the spectrum is you have companies like Danaher, which is a pretty well known
holding company in the manufacturing space. And they're only acquiring specific
types of companies. In Danaher's case, it's manufacturing companies, so they
come in to a manufacturing operation and because they have so much expertise
on turning manufacturers around, they're able to add value that way.
Dylan Taylor: Voyager's really sort of a hybrid between the two we're looking for companies
that are obviously good investments, but we're also looking for companies that
are specifically adding the capability. Within space as we talked about briefly
earlier, it's really important that you assemble capability over time. The reason
the largest players Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing and Airbus can compete so
substantially within the industry is because they have all the capability to deliver
on complex missions in house. And so they sort of dictate what's the so called
value chain. Really what Voyager is trying to do is be a hybrid between a
sophisticated financial investor in terms of healthy companies we're acquiring,
but as we're acquiring them, we're adding capability. And as you add capability,
you can compete for larger and larger contracts, larger and larger missions, and
ultimately you can create superior value within the industry.
John Gilroy: We did about six interviews at SATELLITE 2020, and you walk around the floor,
they're all kinds of innovation. And I mean, from an outsider, it'd be difficult to
find out what to look to invest in. What are the clues? What do you look for to
invest in the company?
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Dylan Taylor: It's a bit of a cliche, but it really is the team. And why do I say that, business
plans are written to be broken, so to speak? I don't know of any business plan
that I'm aware of, that has been implemented exactly the way it was written.
What you are really looking for are experienced teams that can operate in
complex environments and pivot quickly given changes. Changes in client
demand, changes in technological innovation, changes in the capital markets.
That's really in my opinion, the most important thing is the quality of the team.
Obviously there's sectors within space that are more interesting than others,
launch for example is a crowded right now, and you have very successful
launchers with, for example, SpaceX and Rocket Lab that are competing very,
very effectively and lots of other companies trying to take market share, but
haven't yet made it to orbit.
Dylan Taylor: I would say launch is probably crowded. There's likely going to be a shakeout
within the launch sector, but there are other sectors that are emerging that are
very interesting. For example, one of the companies we own Altius is the
pioneer in, on orbit servicing. And this would have applications to, for example,
cleaning up space debris, which is a big issue of course, but also things like
extending satellite life, refueling satellites, upgrading satellites, things like that.
And potentially even down the road space manufacturing, so those are the
kinds of sub-sectors and businesses that we're very interested in. And again, as
you assemble capability over time, you can do more and more interesting things
in space.
John Gilroy: From a categorical perspective, space based businesses and space companies
are the ones that you see as the most exciting business prospects, is that right?
Dylan Taylor: Yes. Yes, indeed. And I think there are sub-sectors. The other one I'm very
interested in is generally speaking planetary resources and by that I mean going
back to the moon in 2024 or thereabouts, long term going to Mars, we need the
ability to extract resources from those planetary bodies, be it oxygen, water,
rocket fuel, so companies that have the technology to do that, I think are going
to be extremely critical going forward.
John Gilroy: And so if you just took a person interested in making an investment and they
could invest in land or real estate or railroads, is just what Warren Buffet does.
And so why would someone specialize in investing in space just because they
have an emotional attachment to it? Or why would you see it and how do you
think they are going to go?
Dylan Taylor: Yeah, that's a great, great question. I think that's part of it, honestly. I think
space is cool. It's trendy. I know when I first got involved in space as an industry,
it was for my passion and really my investment is driven by the desire to see the
industry opened up, right. I mean, that's really where I start from is how do we
enable a healthy industry? How do we enable capitalization of the industry so
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that we can get really interesting things done in space? That's where my drive
comes from, but I would say in general, I still think it's a very good investment
opportunity. And why do I say that? If you look at railroads, for example just
because you brought it up, the railroad system is built out, right? We can talk
about rail becoming more efficient.
Dylan Taylor: We can talk about more products being delivered on rail. We can talk about
population growth, but plus or minus the railroad system is not going to get 10
times bigger in the next 20 years. Whereas space, if we fast forward and we just
say, okay, well look, we're at the very cusp of some just transformational things,
right? Not only potentially going back to the moon to stay, but potentially going
to Mars, space tourism, this whole boom in earth observation, which is having
all these satellites in space, measuring everything from climate, to traffic
patterns, to climate change, all of that. And you think about all the different
growth vectors that the industry has. I think it's well documented. Morgan
Stanley has said this, Goldman Sachs has said this. Very, very credible financial
investors, that space is a multi trillion dollar industry by 2040.
John Gilroy: Trillions of dollars by 2045. That's an incredible number.
Dylan Taylor: That's right. And I think a lot of those numbers honestly are a bit conservative? I
know that sounds crazy, but I think it's a bit conservative. If you just start with
that end state and you say, okay, this is going to be a multi trillion dollar
industry. Well then even companies like SpaceX appear to be small in the whole
context, right? I think SpaceX, their valuation reportedly is around $35 billion,
that's a huge number. But compare it to Apple, which has a market cap of 1,5
trillion or Amazon at I think 1,2 trillion, these are still relatively small numbers. I
think it's not a matter of if space will be instrumental in the global economy, it's
just a matter of when. I joke with friends outside the space industry that they're
in the space industry already, they just don't know it yet. And really that's
meant to clarify that every industry, literally every industry will be disrupted by
space technology, ultimately.
John Gilroy: You know Dylan, thousands of people from all over the world have listened to
this podcast. All you have to do is go to Google type in Constellations podcast to
get to our show notes page, here you can get transcripts from all 77 interviews.
You can also sign up for free email notifications for future podcasts. We talk
about these fascinating topics all the time. Dylan, everyone looks back at their
batting record or their golf score. And maybe you can look back at some of the
projects that you're most proud of. What are the ones that you really want to
tell people about?
Dylan Taylor: Oh, well there's a couple things that I think are really important. I'm very
focused on the social aspects of space. I founded that organization back in 2017
called Space For Humanity, which is a global non-profit looking at democratizing
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space. And that's led by just a terrific leader by the name of Rachel Lyons. And I
would say that organization has blossomed and this isn't my doing, I founded
the organization. It's really Rachel and her team, but I would say that's
blossomed into the premier global non-profit for space today, which I'm very
proud of. That would be one. We also did a space manufacturing project with
the gentlemen and team at Made In Space they're of course, the company that
has the 3D printer on the space station. And a couple of years back, we
commissioned the first space manufactured item on behalf of a private citizen
when we manufactured a gravity meter.
Dylan Taylor: And I just remember having the so called print ceremony with a bunch of middle
school students and sort of explaining to them, I'm going to hit this button on
this terminal and ones and zeros are going to be transmitted through the ether.
And on the space station, an item is going to be manufactured and just going
through that process and a couple hours later having the privilege to see the
video of an astronaut twirling, that gravity meter on the international space
station. Projects like that, really things that inspire, I call them dinner table
conversations. The whole notion would be it's the classic 12 year old girl sitting
at the dinner table, with their parents are saying, you know the most amazing
thing happened today, or did you know that there have been humans on the
space station for the last 18 years or that they recreated a Star Trek device to
manufacture items from thin air, things like that. I just think those times of
inspirational projects and stories are really how we captivate the imagination
and get people involved in space and technology.
John Gilroy: Dylan, I know you're a busy guy. I can't believe you have time to write articles,
but you've written several articles about SpaceX and for the past few years,
especially with the 2020 Crew Dragon's launch, SpaceX seems to have
monopolized all kinds of attention here, so how do you see SpaceX evolving?
Dylan Taylor: Well, I think they're going to become more vertically and horizontally
integrated. What do I mean by that vertically, meaning controlling more and
more of their supply chain, which they already do, but then horizontally
integrated by getting into more and more aspects of the space industry. And
again, this is part of the vision for Voyager as well. I think part of the reason
they're doing Starlink as an example is to get into the hardware business. I think
this is also why Blue Origin and Amazon are doing the Kuiper constellation, so I
think the trend will be towards more and more internal capability. If you look at
a lot of the projects that Elon's working on, and I think this has been said before.
I know I've said it before. I'm convinced the Boring Company, which is all about
tunnels is really about tunnels on Mars. Tesla's all about solar and electric cars,
again as applied to space. If you look at the projects he's working on, they all
have applications to his long term vision.
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Dylan Taylor: I think it's all about assembling more and more capability because obviously if
you're going to colonize or settle, colonize is probably not the right word, but
settle Mars, you have to have enormous capability, enormous capability, so I
think that's really what their future holds is assembling that.
John Gilroy: Everybody loves success. I asked you about your success here, but part of this
game is failure too, I think SpaceX had some failures in the early days. And so
you see a company like that or maybe other companies you're looking at. And
so how do you analyze, how do you analyze this risk in space?
Dylan Taylor: Yeah, it's a great question. It's super risky, so obviously back to investor hat,
never ever invest more than you can afford to lose. You should always assume
high likelihood of loss. That's true of any early stage investment. I do see
especially in the age of Robinhood, the free brokerage firm, people seeing
investment more like a casino, that people should never look at it that way. But
I think failure, it's interesting. It cuts both ways. I mean, I know early stage
investors who have the sentiment that they won't invest in an entrepreneur
who hasn't failed before, that's a pretty common sentiment. And I understand
that because that scar tissue, that resiliency that you build from early failures is
really, really important. And I think we all have met a overly confident
entrepreneur who only sees the rosy side, right.
Dylan Taylor: Super optimistic, but doesn't see any potential downside. Those are the people
that I think can create undue systemic risks. I think, I look at Elon, of course, he's
later in his career now, but I don't think he ever thought that space was easy,
that rocketry was easy. And what I admire most about him is his resilience, is
the fact that he dusted himself off after several failures and kept going. I mean,
a lesser human would not have done that, so I actually admire. I think there's
people to find themselves in failure more than success, in my view.
John Gilroy: I'm sure there are young entrepreneurs listening to this, and that's a good piece
of advice is pursue something, even if you fail. What other good characteristics
for someone to be successful in this New Space world? What should they do
and what should they avoid?
Dylan Taylor: Well, I think one key characteristic is be coach-able, where I really enjoy the
mentorship piece and like to sit down with young entrepreneurs and help them
get better. And some entrepreneurs believe they have it all figured out and
don't listen, frankly. And others are very coach-able and really are just really
interested. It doesn't mean they take all advice, but at least take it all in, and
they process it, and they try to understand it. I would say that's one key thing,
find a good mentor or two as an entrepreneur, and then listen to them. I think
because it's not realistic or reasonable to think that you can have it all figured
out. You definitely need help to build a successful company, there's no doubt
about that.
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John Gilroy: I'm going to read a quote here and you have to tell me where this originated.
The year is 2211, 250 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in orbit.
Far enough away to be provocative but close enough to be tangible. I'm sure
you recognized that quote it's from website called 2211. You founded in our
contributor of this space philosophy website. Space philosophy, wow. We never
talked about that on this podcast before. What is space philosophy and what's it
all about?
Dylan Taylor: Yeah. Great, great question. Back to the social elements of space. One of the
concerns I have is as we venture into space, we meaning the human species. Are
we giving considerate thought as to what those implications are? Are we re-
imagining what we can perhaps do better as we venture into the stars, things
like that. And what I believe to be true is that there's no one right answer to
that. But it's really, really important to have dialogue about it. And so there are
a couple of projects that I launched really to make sure that we're having those
kinds of conversations by 2211 is one of them. And the thought is to have
people sort of imagine, what are the implications for the future of humanity in
space? What are some of the pitfalls? What are some of the opportunities? And
have people have dialogue about that on the site.
Dylan Taylor: And the idea would be debate those ideas. There are several versions, for
example of sort of a declaration of human rights, as an example. A few people
have taken a stab at that. There've been other articles that are really more
prose or poetry even, there is some videos on there, so it's really multimedia,
but it's really meant to engage people in this conversation. The other project
related to this that we launched is called the Ad Astra Dinners. And these are
sort of the classic table dinners, where you have 12 to 14 people around the
table and the concept with this is these are all influencers, people of notoriety
from other industries, because one of the fears I have is space can be a little bit
of an echo chamber and space enthusiasts, all sort of drink the Koolaid, so to
speak and all have sort of common precepts and beliefs, which I think can be
good.
Dylan Taylor: But you also want to I think, influence influencers and make sure that you're
engaging with people from other industries, but for a couple of reasons, one is
so they understand, Hey, we're on the cusp of this space disruption, and you
should know about it and your community should know about it. And then
secondly, to have them weigh in and help shape the narrative about what space
should be and shouldn't be, and things like that. And it's been fascinating. We've
done those dinners all around the world and it really takes the characteristic of
the city you hold them in. For example, in DC the conversation was much more
regulatory. When we held it in Los Angeles, it was much more about inspiring
the imagination, telling the stories that will engage people. I just find that very
fascinating, but at their core, they're to foster dialogue. That's the whole
concept.
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John Gilroy: Oh, it's a great conversation we've had. Dylan, we really appreciate you taking
the time to share some of your insight in the areas of investment in space. I'd
like to thank our guest, Dylan Taylor, CEO and chairman of Voyager Space
Holdings.