Lori Garver - Escaping Gravity

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

“You have to have a drive and a willingness to get bloody by standing up for something greater than yourself.”

Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver joins Cole to discuss her book, Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age. Lori’s book is a firsthand account of her career at NASA, highlighted by her role in the private sector’s involvement in the nation’s space program. The conversation covers the hurdles she faced, how incentive structures can lead to good and bad, and how free market capitalism can deliver human potential.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:08.0	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure.
0:12.9	You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor.
0:25.5	Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead. I'm the CEO and a portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and book junkies. It can be said
0:30.9	that leaders are readers, and we believe books provide us a great source of information for filtering
0:35.6	what is and isn't important for us as investors.
0:38.8	Investing is the last great liberal art and the best way to spend a lifetime of learning.
0:42.6	This podcast is for readers, thinkers, business-minded people, and investors who want to grow their
0:47.7	knowledge from great authors and their writing. Charlie Munger often talks about using
0:51.6	multiple mental models and analysis.
0:57.7	Our aim for this podcast is to help listeners, testmonger's theory in business,
0:59.2	markets, and people.
1:01.5	Thank you for joining us for this episode.
1:06.5	We're going to talk about incentive structures, creating change, and politics,
1:08.0	luckily, all in one book.
1:15.4	Lori Garver is joining us to talk about her 2022 book release, escaping gravity, my quest to transform NASA and launch a new space age.
1:17.8	A little background on Lori.
1:19.6	Ms. Garver is the founder of Earthrise Alliance, an initiative to improve policy, technical
1:23.6	solutions that utilize space data to address the climate crisis.
1:27.5	She is a senior fellow at the Belfar Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School
1:32.3	and executive residents at Bessemer Venture Partners, a member of the board of Hydrosat and an advisory
1:37.9	board member at Worldview.
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