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Baiju Bhatt

Founder & CEO, Cowboy Space Corporation; Co-founder, Robinhood, Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Search every verified Baiju Bhatt interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder and CEO of Cowboy Space Corporation, has been discussing his company’s work on orbital infrastructure. In an October 2026 interview on Bloomberg Television, he said Cowboy Space is developing an energy grid in orbit and that its first satellite, Reason 1, reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare, with the team in daily communication with it. He described the company’s plan to build data centers in space, noting that the upper stage of its purpose-built rocket would remain in orbit and function as the data center itself, with the rocket’s fairing unfolding to serve as a radiator for heat dissipation. Bhatt stated that the company aims to run its orbital hardware to end of life, arguing that older chipsets remain useful for AI workloads due to high compute demand. In an August 2026 podcast interview with Kleiner Perkins’ Joubin Mirzadegan, Bhatt discussed his transition from Robinhood to Cowboy Space, saying he had wanted to start a space company since early in his career. He explained that his thesis is that low Earth orbit is a platform for commercial activity, and that he began focusing on powering data centers after observing that energy usage would concentrate there. Bhatt also said his background is in physics and math, not finance, and that he had once considered a career in academia.

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“I'd like to see our energy infrastructure on this planet used for people, and let's build a big power grid in space and use that for AI.”

“We're building our own rocket program to build data centers in space. That's arguably the biggest economic opportunity in the history of the space industry.”

“The overwhelming dynamic here now and in the future is just the need for compute. I think there's definitely people that are concerned about controlling their own data centers, but if you kind of look around at the marketplace right now, people are trying to get capacity whenever and wherever they can get it. So, there's I'm sure there's a little bit of that behind the scenes, but I think the primary thing that I'm s”

“We want to optimize for simplicity of architecture and speed to market. Those are kind of high-level objectives. We don't have to build the Bugatti Veyron of rocket engines here. We want to build something that's much more the Honda Civic of rocket engines. And what that looks like, it's down selecting each one of the core trades in the system to optimize for what can we build relatively quickly that gets the job don”

“I think it sometimes takes an outsider looking in with the perspective of, like, no, actually participating in America's financial system is not a bad thing. It's, like, actually the, you know, very directly, it's the envy of the world. And our generation of young people, we should make tools that make it straightforward for them to be a part of the system and to Robinhood.”

“The application that we're building for first is actually to power remote DoD installations. Like it's kind of you could probably teach me a lesson on this, but fuel transport to the battlefield is very dangerous. Right. Imagine just snipping that supply chain altogether and you have this little receiver dish and all of your power infrastructure's in orbit.”

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