Long-horizon thinking, space technology, and civilizational-scale challenges.
EP 06Lilian Krengel
19-year-old Santa Clara freshman Lilian Krengel founded OrbitGuard AI — a real-time satellite collision prediction system — after 13 years of gymnastics, a stint arguing NATO AI policy in debate at 16, and a winter night crying, questioning whether engineering was right for her at all.
EP 04Bailley Georgieva
Bailley Georgieva simulates Mach 10+ flight physics at MIT and evaluated startup fixes at the Defense Innovation Unit. She has a specific, grounded answer to what it means to stay original in a world that defaults to AI.