Planet Labs PBC Sales Trigger: Board Shake-Up

🚀 Battle Card: Planet Labs PBC

• Scott Reese, Board of Directors Member · 🔗 LinkedIn

• This Planet Labs PBC sales trigger highlights fresh product leadership expertise just as they build out their platform → Source

• Scaling a global satellite-data platform to meet enterprise SLAs

• Integrating advanced analytics for industry-specific workflows

• Primary: Managed cloud pipeline for daily imagery → Cut data ingest time by 50%

• Expansion: Custom analytics & dashboarding suite → Unlock new revenue in agriculture & forestry

• HQ: San Francisco, CA

• Employees: ≈ 600

• Rev: ≈ $300 M

• Website: planet.com

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Maxar Technologies — Satellite imagery & analytics
• Unique edge: High-resolution archives
• Evaluated by VP Product for imagery accuracy

• Airbus — Earth observation systems
• Unique edge: Defense-grade sensors
• Evaluated by CTO for sensor integration

• Google Cloud — Cloud & ML
• Unique edge: AI/ML toolkits for geospatial
• Evaluated by Head of Eng for analytics scalability

• AWS — Cloud & Data Lakes
• Unique edge: Global data infrastructure
• Evaluated by Infra team for uptime guarantees

• Palantir — Data integration platform
• Unique edge: Complex data modeling
• Evaluated by CIO for data fusion capabilities

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑NewsletterForLeads❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑Managed cloud pipeline for daily imagery❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑Cut data ingest time by 50%❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑punchy❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Scott
COMPANY     = Planet Labs PBC
DEPT        = Product
SIZE        = ≈ 50
BOTTLENECK  = Scaling a global satellite-data platform to meet enterprise SLAs
EVENT       = Board appointment
DETAIL      = Scott Reese Elected to Planet's Board of Directors
PAIN        = Integrating advanced analytics for industry-specific workflows
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20250910600573&div=41152219
SIM_CO      = Maxar Technologies
WIN_METRIC  = 50% faster data ingest
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ 100
EMP_EST     = ≈ 600
REV_EST     = ≈ $300M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ 50-person Product

Scott—noticed your Product team is ≈ 50.

That’s when Scaling a global satellite-data platform to meet enterprise SLAs slows growth.

We helped Maxar Technologies fix this with Managed cloud pipeline for daily imagery.

Result: 50% faster data ingest.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ 100.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about Scott Reese Elected to Planet's Board of Directors — Integrating advanced analytics for industry-specific workflows.  
Managed cloud pipeline for daily imagery. Cut data ingest time by 50%.  
Quick chat?