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Lemkin: SpaceX market valuation will triple in 2026 driven by retail investors
“I'm going to take this bet that it's going to trade up three X, In twenty-twenty-six, just based on GameStoppers driving it up.”
Jason Lemkin: SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic combined IPO values will top past 20 years
“The big three, SpaceX plus OpenAI plus Anthropic, their value at IPO will exceed every other IPO for the last 20 years combined.”
O'Driscoll: Meta and SpaceX rented compute after failing to build AI assets
“Two companies Have done the same thing, which is buy a load of compute to build proprietary assets, fail to build those assets, and then bring that, and then decide instead to sell that compute to others, and both of them have had a very positive market recept…”
Stebbings: Menlo to make $10B carry on Anthropic, Founders Fund more on SpaceX
“Menlo will make ten billion dollars in carry Spot will too, plus Founders Fund will make more than that from SpaceX.”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX has far more differentiation than Cursor's IDE wrapper
“There is a lot more fucking differentiation in putting rockets in the sky than there is making forking an open source IDE and running it on top of Claude code.”
O'Driscoll: 80% of Tesla and SpaceX value is the Elon Musk premium
“My mental model is on SpaceX and Tesla. About 80% of the value is the Elon premium and 20% of the value is the actual business is worth.”
Lemkin: SpaceX, Canva, Databricks, and Anthropic will IPO in 2026
“I think we see four IPOs backloaded next year. SpaceX goes out first. Canva comes out of nowhere second. Databricks does it in the back half of the year because it's just time. Anthropic does it at the end of the year. OpenAI probably should have gone first, b…”
Hoffman: Elon Musk's greatest strength and weakness stem from blind conviction
“Elon has a conviction that he, what he believes is true is absolutely true even when all of the evidence is against his belief, right? And so that allows him to do, I can see that we can colonize Mars, and here we go. Right? And that creates, you know, SpaceX,…”
Reyes: Nvidia will likely hit a $10 trillion market cap within three years
“I think that there's a real serious chance that if we let SpaceX Be worth two or three trillion, then NVIDIA probably is worth 10. And so I think that the answer's likely yes.”
Reyes: Cursor will struggle to stay model-independent and orient around Grok
“It's going to be a very hard story to become Model independent, or rather stay model independent when you're attached to a model lab. So they're going to want to push Grok, the models, the products are going to become increasingly oriented around Grok, and tha…”
Maguire Pushed Sequoia's SpaceX Investment After Partner Voted '1' in IC
“Credits to Sean when he brought in the SpaceX investment, We vote on companies. I think someone voted a one. Yeah. I've seen fours, of course. I've seen threes. Never seen a two. I didn't even know we could do one. I didn't even know it was on the scale. But w…”
Stebbings: SpaceX closes $60B takeover of Cursor
“SpaceX closes the sixty billion dollar all stock takeover of cursor, minting thousand X returns for the likes of Alipartovia Neo. Open AI startup fund is a mega winner who invested six to eight million dollars very early, which Rory, I thought of you when you …”
Frankel: OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX Are Today's Metas and Googles
“And I think in, you know, OpenAI and Anthropic and SpaceX, we're seeing that already. Like these are the Metas and the Googles of our era, highly likely.”
OpenAI and Anthropic IPO Performance Hinges on SpaceX
“I think if SpaceX performs well, the OpenAI Anthropic IPOs will also go very well. I think if SpaceX performs poorly, then those are going to have a hard time.”
Randle predicts SpaceX stock price will be lower in six months
“I would personally probably take the under in six months, not because I don't think that the company is going to be valued extremely well... But if I had to go over under, I'd go under from six months from now.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic still has over 50% chance of IPOing this year
“I mean, statistically, more than 50%, yes, because in a world where this doesn't get solved for four or five months, there's so many other problems that our heads are gonna hurt, right? So you have to say, if a problem, in a world where it does get solved, the…”
SpaceX is a unique N-of-1 company compared to OpenAI and Anthropic
“SpaceX. Why? It's an N of one company. Like, Anthropic and OpenAI can claim they do whatever each other does. But SpaceX is the only company building space infrastructure for connectivity.”
Lemkin: SpaceX IPO will be a dud and will not trade up
“I think the IPO nominally will be a dud. I don't think it will trade up dramatically.”
O'Driscoll: Starlink Will Drive Most of SpaceX's Value by 2030
“I think Starlink will be the vast portion of the value. The value, I don't think data centers in space will be a meaningful percentage of revenue.”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX valuation will remain below $3 trillion post-IPO
“I'm comfortable in saying it'll be below, okay, I'll tell you what, I'll take, I'm comfortable below three. I mean, I'll totally take that bet.”
Lemkin: Elon Musk will force underwriters to meet SpaceX target IPO valuation
“I think Elon, what Elon said Publicly on X, it ain't going to be two trillion. Maybe he'll change his mind. He said two trillion was too high. So whatever his number is, I think he's going to get it on IPO day. He's going to will it into existence. The underwr…”
O'Driscoll: Markets won't sustain a $400B valuation bump from Musk's fab announcement
“I am significantly more skeptical That six months from now, people are going to attribute another 400 billion of value to a statement that I'm going to build a fab.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic and SpaceX's next funding rounds will be IPOs
“You've got to believe that the next round for this, Antropic, and SpaceX are all public offerings.”
Stebbings: SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25T combined valuation merger
“Last few hours, or 24 hours, SpaceX has completed the acquisition of XAI, valuing the combined private company at 1.25 trillion, as Elon moves to pair the businesses together.”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX generates $19B in revenue while xAI generates $4M
“My understanding is your SpaceX is 80, nineteen billion growing 30% profitable. Allegedly. Again, we haven't seen the data and the other company is not doing, you know, it's some four million in revenue.”
Lemkin: Google is corporate investor of the year for its massive stakes
“Owning almost 10% of SpaceX, owning, ah, perhaps 14% of Anthropic, depending on dilution, right? Now, and obviously, now this is the greatest in circular investment of all, owning the vast majority of Waymo, which is going to blow up. But those three are, like…”
O'Driscoll: Traditional financial metrics cannot justify SpaceX's $1.5T valuation
“You can't run the numbers on SpaceX and come up with that 1.5 trillion. You just can't.”
O'Driscoll: Founders Fund's SpaceX deal will return $50B–$100B
“There's no doubt in a world where one investment might return 50 to a hundred Billion dollars. Everyone else has to feel just a teeny tiny tad irrelevant compared to that return for founders fund and good on them. It's a 20 year compounder at 50% plus or minus…”
Calacanis: SpaceX will go public at a valuation of $1T or more
“Tesla had to IPO. Now it was a different time. It really barely had any revenue, but same guy running them. It IPO'd at 1.7 billion, which seemed very expensive. 1.7 billion. The sister company will IPO at 1.7 trillion or one trillion.”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX Valued Over 40x Run Rate at $15B Revenue
“Doing fifteen billion dollars, growing plus or -30%. This year, that's a pretty hefty valuation. I mean, that's, you know, north of 40 times run rate for a company this year growing 30.”
Taneja: Private markets function like public markets for elite startups
“I think for the very best companies, private markets behave like public markets. There's a secondary market, you can liquidate, so your shareholders can take liquidity, employees can take liquidity, you have access to credit, you can do M&A, your stocks value,…”
Taneja: Retail should get top private tech access, not bottom VC funds
“Giving people access to SpaceX and Stripe, you're not gonna regret it. It'll, it'll do right by them. You'll feel proud of it. What you don't want to do is, Take retail and put it into you know, the bottom quartile of the venture capital funds that lose money …”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX customers must use it even if they hate it
“The truth is, SpaceX, it's just Such an amazing achievement that even if one of your biggest customers doesn't much like you, they still got to do business with you. That's not quite as true for Tesla.”
O'Driscoll: Elon Musk is the only candidate for a $500B net worth
“The only person who can sprint their way through a half a trillionaire in the next couple of years is obviously Elon, because he has private stocks and our ability as the ability of the private markup, private, sorry, the private market to markup investments i…”
O'Driscoll: Four or more venture exits will top $65B in 5-7 years
“If there's not four exits, Above sixty five billion in the next five or seven years, then the people who bought Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, OpenAI and Antropic are screwed. So I don't think they're screwed. So I think there's going to be, this trend is going t…”
Moore: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will reach multi-trillion dollar outcomes
“We're talking about going from talking about 30 to fifty billion dollar outcomes to multi-trillion dollar outcomes in the form of SpaceX or OpenAI or Anthropic.”
Pishevar: SpaceX will become a $10 trillion company
“So I think SpaceX will be a 10 trillion dollar company. It's just getting started.”
Maples: SpaceX could become the most valuable company in the world
“I don't have to squint too hard to see a world where they're the most valuable company in the world.”
Asparouhov: Lean startup methodology fails for category-defining tech companies
“It works in the world of like small SaaS businesses where you're trying to make a marginal improvement on a, you know Small, you know, industry, if you're doing workflow software for plumbers, I'm sure that is a, like, reasonable approach. I don't think that E…”
Stephens: Billionaire Co-Founders Give Defense Startups Crucial Capital Advantages
“There is a capital advantage to having a billionaire as a co-founder. At Palantir and SpaceX, certainly, it took a really, really long time To get momentum on the business side of things. And so you needed to be able to raise money through a drought.”
Stripe and SpaceX Will Not Go Public in 2024
“I don't expect Stripe or SpaceX to go out next year, and Databricks alone won't be enough to crack open the IPO windows.”
Palmer Luckey: SpaceX and Palantir Were Defense's Only Recent Unicorns
“And when I looked at national security, it was a very interesting space where the only two unicorns in the last 30 years in defense, Palantir and SpaceX, were both founded by people who had just sold their company for billions of dollars.”
VC pattern matching rewards SpaceX copycats over broader aerospace innovation
“The industry as a whole pattern matches very strongly on exactly what successes have existed previously. So for example, for today, it's really easy to raise money for a rocket company because SpaceX is a success, but that doesn't strongly translate over into …”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX is the highest-returning VC deal ever in absolute dollars
“This is the best Venture capital deal ever in terms of absolute return.”
O'Driscoll: Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan will make over $10B on SpaceX
“Who will make, I think, over ten billion dollars from their SpaceX. To clarify, I know you think the entire Midwest is the same, Harry, but I think it's Ontario teachers.”
Lemkin: SpaceX Is Allocating 30% of Its IPO to Retail Investors
“Elon's putting 30% of the, you know, this massive IPO, the largest in history so far, into retail.”