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So you bought half of Rocket Lab at the
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time. Did you have people in your ear
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like accountants, business mentors or
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anything saying, "Mark, what the [ __ ]
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are you doing?"
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>> Yeah. Yeah. You know, you definitely get
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a bit of that. The reality is, you know,
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you look at Rocket Lab, you know, what
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happened there shouldn't actually be
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technically possible. So really, you
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know, what Peter Beck and the team have
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done there has been a bit of an outlier
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compared to the rest of the world.
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>> In 2007, what was it that you saw in
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Peter Beck and Rocket Lab that others
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didn't?
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>> He wasn't just someone that had gone to
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university and done the kind of minimum
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engineering course and then said, "Hey,
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I've got this idea." He'd lived and
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breathed that that passion. You can pick
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that up in people. I looked after Peter.
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Peter looked after me.