S3E1: How I Started My Own Aerospace Company with Othniel Mbamalu

The New School Podcast with Christine Hong

Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered about what goes on outside of our own world? Othniel Mbamalu discusses his own experience of how he founded a corporation that is helping advance human space flight and leading the way to better understand what goes on outside of our planet. He is the founder and CTO of Advanced Rocket Corporation (ARC), an Aerospace startup based in Southern California with a focus on advancement of space flight. Othniel grew up in Nigeria where technology, electricity, and pollution were limited which lead him to find a fascination for the stars. With no idea of what to expect of the United States, he left Nigeria and headed from Pittsburgh to California. Through resilience and persistence, working day and night, he was able to turn his passion for space into a reality. In this episode, Christine and Othniel talk about how he made his first aerospace patent at age 16 (but then couldn’t afford to publish it), how he was able to use the press in Nigeria to get the US embassy to notice him and get him a visa to USA, and how he got millions in funding for his current aerospace company, Advanced Rockets Corporation.

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