CEO War Stories w/ Dr. James “Jimi” Crawford, Orbital Insight

Written By Jason Gore

About Dr. James Crawford

James is the founder of Orbital Insight. Since 2013 the company has been pursuing the mission of processing geospatial data at petabyte scale to help commercial and government customers understand what we are doing on and to the Earth. In 2024 the company was acquired by Privateer Space and has since operated as a fully owned subsidiary. In addition to being the founder of Orbital Insight, James also works as Chief Strategy Officer for the combined company.

Previously he was SVP of Science and Engineering at the Climate Corporation through its $1B acquisition by Monsanto. before his time at Climate he was CTO and Software Architect at Moon Express—a company with the goal of putting the first commercial robot on the Moon. Previous to that, he was Engineering Director of Google Book Search where he was in charge of Google’s project to scan, index, and make searchable the world’s books.

James holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Math and Computer from Rice University.

 
Jason Gore

Jason Gore has been supporting business leaders for over 25 years, providing practical tools and actionable insights on leadership, collaboration, innovation, negotiations, decision-making, conflict resolution, and company culture. Jason’s greatest passion is working with leaders doing things that have never been done before, an indication of his devotion to exploration. Jason regularly pushes limits, physically, mentally, and spiritually, believing that the greatest learning happens at the edge of experience, sometimes even inviting his CEO clients to join him in the adventure, where the greatest growth happens.

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