Flavia Tata Nardini is the co-founder and CEO of Fleet Space
Technologies, the Adelaide company using satellites, seismic
sensors and AI to help find the critical minerals needed for the
energy transition. Since starting with just A$25,000, Fleet has
grown into a global space and mining technology company valued at
more than A$800 million.
In this candid conversation, Flavia shares how losing everything
as a child shaped her relationship with money, identity and risk,
why moving to Australia left her with little choice but to build
her own company, and how Fleet searched for product-market fit
across everything from beehives and cattle to pipelines and
vineyards.
Vidit and Flavia explore the mining breakthrough that transformed
Fleet, the A$100 Rocket Lab launch that helped save the company,
raising children while building a startup, finding the right
partner in life and business, and why Fleet now plans to take the
same seismic technology it uses beneath the Earth to the Moon.
Please enjoy exploring your curiosity.
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TIMESTAMPS
01:00 Who is Flavia
03:42 The Day Her Family Lost Everything
14:02 The Childhood Dream That Never Left Her
19:12 Leaving Rome and Becoming Someone New
24:22 What the Space Industry Got Wrong
27:08 Why Australia Forced Her to Become a Founder
35:35 How Fleet Space Really Began
38:38 Betting on an Industry She Barely Knew
41:15 The Moment Fleet Became More Than an Idea
45:05 Building a Company With the Person You Love
49:36 The Messy Search for Product-Market Fit
54:12 The Bet That Changed Fleet Forever
55:45 Using Satellites and AI to See Beneath Earth
01:01:02 Building a Global Deep-Tech Company From Adelaide
01:05:15 The $100 Satellite Launch That Saved Fleet
01:09:15 From Founder Mode to Leading an $800M Company
01:14:40 Taking Fleet’s Technology From Earth to the Moon
01:16:00 Rapid Fire
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