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In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sit down with Awis Ahmed, founder of Pixxel, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:41 Building the pod
00:06:25 Working at SpaceX
00:07:31 Why Awais chose asteroid mining
00:14:11 Why no one got into hyperspectral commercial space
00:22:23 Raising funds to build a satellite
00:32:58 Building the first satellite
00:43:54 Raising funds during the pandemic
00:49:41 How Pixxel generates revenue
00:50:21 Launching the satellite
1:09:58 Outro

Pixxel is a space data company building a constellation of the world’s highest-resolution hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from the data.

The images gathered by Pixxel's satellites will provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment, and energy use cases.

About Awais Ahmed:

Awais Ahmed started his professional journey at HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), as a research intern.

Around the same time in 2016, he was also the founder member and engineering lead at Hyperloop India.

He started Pixxel in 2019.

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