Hi, I'm Christian Keil.

Pronounced "Kyle."

I lead the regulatory, PR, marketing, international relations, government relations, and finance teams at Astranis. We build advanced satellites for high orbits.

I joined the company about six years ago (!) when we were just fifty people, and helped us scale up to where we are today, with $750m raised and five satellites in the sky.
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Before Astranis, I spent 10 years learning. I learned about econ, psych, and stats at the University of Michigan; then business and telecom at Deloitte; then startups and engineering at UC Berkeley. In parallel, I wrote a book on religion and science, a few Medium articles, and a weekly Substack to capture and share what I was learning.
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I believe that the world is both understandable and malleable. Humanity needs to build our way through the grand challenges ahead of us, so I want to train more builders through First Principles and Buildlist, and fund great builders through my angel investments.

‍Bonus: I love Survivor, powerlifting, endurance sports, karaoke, Magic: the Gathering, Factorio, Twitter, and my adorable family. I have tracked all of my reading since 2014. Enjoy!