This episode is presented by Invest Puerto Rico.

If you believe your business can go anywhere, Puerto Rico is the place. Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.

I'm Rebecca Bilan, and this is usually when you would hear our Friday News Roundup,

but naturally, Disrupt has us doing things a little differently. I'm actually here now in the

green room at Disrupt, which is probably why you hear some background noise, but by the time you

hear this, we'll be flying home from Disrupt. For those of you who came out to SF, thank you. And for those of you who couldn't make it,

check out the episode before this one to hear Kirsten, Margo, and Devin's live show. It was so much fun,

and I hope you enjoyed as much as we did. Speaking of live shows and equities Devin Coldaway, today we're bringing you an interview Devon-led on the space stage with Peter Beck,

the founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.

The pair dug into Beck's belief that to thrive, perhaps even survive,

space companies will have to become a fully integrated one-stop shop.

Let's take a listen.

Thank you for joining us, Peter.

We've talked so many times over the years.

It's always a pleasure. Before we really get started, though, I think for anybody who is worried about this, what's the over under on a neutron launch this year?

This year? This year? No, next year. Next year for sure. Okay. Just making sure. But let me ask you this. Let's say, assume everything goes perfectly well, trip up and down what does that open up for

you as a company what could you what do you get the green light on as soon as you make that successful

trip what do you do the next day and you're like all right go on this go on this yeah one the purpose

of neutron is really twofold one it's to try and you know break up the kind of medium launch monopoly

that is it is today.

And then the other kind of element is to launch our own stuff.

Once you have the first launch, it's a great milestone, but actually, that's the easy bit.

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