How to lend money to astronauts, with Russell Shaw (Equatorial Launch Australia)

<p>Today's episode stretches the lending niche, but fifty-four years ago, humanity landed on the moon, so I'm feeling flexible. And anyway, people lend to airport operators all the time, so it won't be too long until spaceports are seen as similarly stable fixed-cost operators.</p><br><p><br></p><p>When I was younger, if a conversation involved a South African tech billionaire and space, you were talking about Mark Shuttleworth (lovely nominative determinism there, by the way). More recently, the same talking points would more of course be associated with Elon Musk. I'll never not enjoy seeing a SpaceX rocket land back on a barge after a successful launch. But Elon's been busy with other matters, and now there's a new name in the Industry: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellshaw/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russell Shaw</a>. </p><br><p><br></p><p>Is Russell a tech billionaire? No. But I'm not Joe Rogan, so I can't exactly point fingers 🤣 And Russell is involved in an exciting project launching satellites from equatorial Australia. </p><br><p><br></p><p>You should visit Equatorial Launch Australia at https://ela.space/ - the launch footage alone is worth our click.</p><br><p><br></p><p>If you're interested in investing, or indeed if you're interested in launching something into space, feel free to contact Russel on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellshaw/ </p><br><p><br></p><p>You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on my LinkedIn page</a> (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0133U3HGC/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6VS5451P6XEAX61A9G5J" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon, some versions even for free</a>, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at <a href="https://confirmu.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://confirmu.com/</a> and on episode 24 of this very show <a hre