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Bridgit Mendler
Co-founder & CEO, Northwood Space
Co-founded Northwood Space, building shared satellite ground infrastructure; earlier a Disney Channel actress and singer.
Real Alpha has cut 7 moments of Bridgit Mendler (Co-founder & CEO, Northwood Space) talking, from an interview on Sourcery published Aug 31, 2026.
What Bridgit Mendler said
Sourcery · Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory
7 moments · 21 min
- 2:45
Ground infrastructure lagged because the industry split the work
“so for us, what we're doing is we're looking across that whole value chain and trying to accomplish it all within one company”
at 4:27 - 23:07
Northwood wants revenue growth before expanding its scope
“It's how can you demonstrate a business year after year that grows and that actually hits rather compelling revenue figures along the way.”
at 23:42 - 26:20
Ground networks use costly redundancy to guarantee reliability
“sometimes they'll have, like, three times the amount of ground capacity that they would otherwise”
at 28:19 - 13:28
The Space Force contract is a trial for a larger engagement
“it's us demonstrating our system works. We're able to do all the things that we said we were able to do.”
at 15:10 - 17:11
Northwood uses site diversity to limit the impact of outages
“we have a bunch of sites and we have that diversity of sites so that we can make sure if any one of those sites goes down”
at 18:44 - 8:36
Space companies still need real businesses today
“there's a lot of enthusiasm around the category, but you have to tie that back to business fundamentals.”
at 9:26 - 38:11
Northwood is bringing time-critical manufacturing in-house
“We're going to be doing PCB assembly as well, basically bringing in all the different parts of the supply chain that are kind of, you know, imposing timeline restrictions”
at 40:09
- 2:45
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