Planet Labs PBC ($PL) operates a vast fleet of small Earth-imaging satellites that capture a daily global snapshot—think a real-time archive of our changing planet. In this episode, we unpack the company’s garage-born origin by ex-NASA scientists, its subscription-style data-as-a-service model serving agriculture, government, defense and finance, and its technical edge of frequent, high-cadence imagery plus new AI-enabled Pelican satellites. The upside is huge: unique, recurring data that enables analytics from crop forecasting to automated change detection. But it’s capital- and execution-intensive, faces heavy competition from incumbents and startups, and carries operational and launch risks that could compress margins. Is Planet a durable leader in planetary-scale data, or an ambitious hopeful in a crowded, risky market?

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