Dan Goldin
@dansgoldin
Advancing 🇺🇸 deep tech. Senior Advisor, Cerberus Capital Management. Bronx native. 9th NASA Chief ISS + Webb + 61 Astronaut Missions Per Aspera 🇺🇸💥🤘
Grateful to turn 85 today. This is the side of me, I don't post about often. The real Dan Goldin 👇 I spent most of my life behind the secrecy of classified works during the Cold War and then catapulted all of a sudden into the public eye as NASA Administrator. On both sides,…

I love people who don't rest on history. Proud to have contributed to this. Mung Chiang of Purdue is a killa. Mark Lewis of PARI is a killa. engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Academics…
Here you go if you missed yesterdays newsletter on MOON/MARS/ASTEROIDS and where we might wanna put our money as 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. A discussion not a prescription. Love to hear your thoughts. peraspera.us/p/newsletter-0…
If you’re working on something big and people don’t seem to notice, here’s a hard truth: Things don’t come off as a big deal unless you make them one.
I respect @bgurley a lot but think there’s a nuance here. I agree on the starting observation: VC funds have become megafunds. And have started treating early-stage investing like optionality. But this assumes founders will inevitably take the mega-check if offered. Many of the…
My $0.02. A mega-VC with $5-10B annual funds is really searching for only one thing: a company they can pile over $1b into with a potential for 5-10X on the $1b. With this, seed fund is inconsequential money used to increase the odds of main objective. You are collateral damage.
today's drop goes hard > honoring one of humanity's greatest achievements by the greatest country on Earth > remembering that moment not just of American inspiration, but of American *confidence* > sizing up Moon, Mars, and asteroids and asking 'what next?' with my friend…
In this morning's Per Aspera newsletter (in honor of 🇺🇸 moon landing): 1 / Capital allocation of space (why Moon, Mars, asteroids) 2 / What Mark Zuckerburg’s Hyperion data center the size of Manhattan means for the shifting economy 3 / @SpaceCapital Teardown (Per Aspera…