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Leader
Leader
Gildo Pallanca-Pastor
“Dedicating myself 100% to the space adventure”
Interview by Milena Radoman
As a pioneer in electric transportation, Gildo You started out aged 18 in apartment
renovation, whilst studying Law and
Pallanca Pastor has always wanted to break records: Economics. How did your entrepreneurial
spirit come about?
“Whether they have two or four wheels, or even I really didn’t think I had inherited the
entrepreneurial spirit. However, when I was
caterpillar tracks, or they’re powered by a battery 18, I started a small construction business, Best,
which I had to register in my parents’ name as I
or petrol engine, ours are the best engines in their had not reached the legal age required to start
a company! When I was 21, a bigger building
categories: the Voxan Wattman, the Venturi VBB-2 project came up and I went from renovating
apartments to constructing the Gildo Pastor
and the Venturi VBB-3 are the fastest in the world Center – what a contrast!
and the Antarctica has the only electric motor able What remains of that experience today?
Great memories! At the time, I took over the
to function at -50° C,” recounts the Monaco-born construction business of one of my uncles. I
employed two members of staff, a secretary
Venturi boss, who is now working on a new dream: and an engineer. We set up shop in a little
office and started out on the great adventure
to conquer space. of building on an 89,000-m² piece of land
behind the emergency exit of the Stade Louis
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