Mineral — Embracing Nature’s Diversity for Generations to Come

Zayn Patel
7 min readApr 12, 2021

Companies like Loon, Mineral, Project Foghorn, and Waymo all have one thing in common. They are moonshot companies.

What’s a Moonshot company? These are companies that aren’t satisfied with the status quo + have a desire to alter the way we view current problems.

Moonshots are long-term companies, they are optimizing for 10x change over a decade of time. Moonshots take ambitions people with an innovative, unconventional mindset and most important it takes people with a desire to build.

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Zayn Patel

Working on space technology and policy, improving government with data science, and launching a cubesat mission.