Will Marshall
Co-founder, CEO, and chair of Planet Labs PBC, the Earth-imaging and satellite-data company. A former NASA/USRA scientist, he leads Planet’s strategy around satellite fleets, daily Earth observation, geospatial intelligence, and AI-enabled analysis of satellite imagery.
Tech’s Hard Problems Are Moving From Demos to Deployment
TBPN’s Jordi Hays and John Coogan use Apple’s WWDC, the jobs report, venture-capital disputes, and interviews with operators in satellites, biotech, fusion, robotics and nuclear power to frame a recurring divide between demonstration and deployment. Their argument is that AI features, reactors, robots, medicines and market stories are now being judged less by whether they can be shown than by whether they can be operated at scale, with infrastructure, regulation, capital and user trust doing much of the hard work.
Tech Founders Argue IPOs Can Create More Upside After Listing
At an All-In Liquidity IPO panel, Altimeter’s Brad Gerstner, Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman and Planet Labs chief executive Will Marshall made the case that public markets are again becoming a place where venture-backed technology companies can compound, not merely exit. Gerstner argued that investors often give up large gains by forcing distributions after an IPO, while Feldman said more money is historically made after companies go public than before. Marshall and Feldman also described the IPO less as an operating transformation than as a change in capital, credibility and scrutiny, with execution still determining whether the listing creates lasting value.