Company · Telecommunications · Technology · founded 2017
AST SpaceMobile
Satellite designer and manufacturer in Midland, Texas, building a space-based cellular broadband network meant to connect to standard smartphones. Founded in May 2017 by Abel Avellan, who remains chairman and CEO.
Of the 1 person here linked to AST SpaceMobile, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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1 person at AST SpaceMobile
Founder Still there
Role
Founder, chairman and CEO, 2017–now
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia says the company was founded in May 2017 by Avellan as AST & Science LLC and that he remains chairman and CEO.
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Abel Avellan
Founder, chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile, which is building satellites meant to connect directly to ordinary phones; earlier founded the satellite services firm EMC and sold it for $550 million in 2016
Venezuelan-born engineer · some · college degree