Explaining the entrepreneurial benefits of Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP) to SpaceNews today.
“Transparent pricing is a sign of a growing industry of standardized services versus a cottage industry of bespoke work,” Steve Jurvetson, Future Ventures founder and managing director, said. “Instead of opaque, cost-plus government contracts, a thriving commercial market has quoted prices and delivery times for each layer of the stack, from subcomponents to managed services.”
“Published low prices have encouraged a whole generation of startups to enter the market that might not have otherwise known what was possible,” said Jurvetson, an early SpaceX and Planet investor, and a member of the SpaceX board of directors. “For example, in the early days of Planet, low-cost launch futures helped them conceptualize a business model of agile aerospace for a constantly refreshing constellation of Earth-observation satellites.”
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