Michael Palank uniquely applies his decade of experience as a Hollywood talent agent (at William Morris Agency and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment) to identify exceptional founders in aerospace, defense, and space-tech, using the same "star scout" pattern-recognition skills he developed spotting breakout artists. He combines hedge-fund financial training with psychology degrees to evaluate not just founders' markets or products, but how they think, make decisions, and handle pressure, while helping them build mission-driven teams using a Hollywood-style "career arc" mindset for long-term founder development. Michael Palank uniquely applies his decade of experience as a Hollywood talent agent (at William Morris Agency and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment) to identify exceptional founders in aerospace, defense, and space-tech, using the same "star scout" pattern-recognition skills he developed spotting breakout artists. He combines hedge-fund financial training with psychology degrees to evaluate not just founders' markets or products, but how they think, make decisions, and handle pressure, while helping them build mission-driven teams using a Hollywood-style "career arc" mindset for long-term founder development.