This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Julian Mann: Don't Kill Your Team" created on March 7, 2013. It features Julian Mann discussing the challenges of iterating satellite technology designs rapidly without overburdening the team, highlighting a specific instance of needing to improve satellite resolution.
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Rapidly iterate your technology to market, but don't kill your team in the process. And so, right as we finished up the Series A financing, we had this reference point design for the satellite. Really it was a back of the envelope conceptual design, saying this might be feasible. And at the time, the satellite was going to produce two, two and a half meter resolution. Not quite the quality that Dan showed up on the pictures on the slides a few minutes ago, but reasonably good. But we got out there and we started really talking to people. And what we found is we probably need something a little better. We probably need to get closer, down to one meter resolution. And so we began this four or five month process where every two or three days, Dan would walk in the office and say, all right, we need to figure out how to get just like 5% more performance out of the system. And we were just churning out new designs, new designs, new designs, running this kind of analysis, that kind of analysis, and proceeded. And satellite kept growing and growing and growing. And one day, Dan walks in and he had the look on his face that I knew MEANT we need 5% more out of the system. So I grabbed him, took him into the conference room, which was like in the middle of the windowless office, and said, dan, I understand what you're doing. I can take it. But Mike, our VP of satellite systems, is going to have a heart attack if you ask for 5% more from the system one more time. And I'm pretty sure that was the last time the system grabbed.
