Falcon 1
product on 10 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 29 times in 16 episodes since 2021
Founders 12 
Sourcery 8 
TBPN 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
We Live to Build 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Big Technology 1 
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David Senra 1
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2026 15 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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- Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
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2024 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
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5 statements about Falcon 1, every show
SpaceX fixed the Falcon 1 by simply adding a stage separation delay
“That was the one where the second stage had hit the first stage, and so, you know, it wasn't fully successful, and I remember, I think I was standing next to Gwen or something, and she, you know, I was like, oh, you know, what, so how are you guys gonna fix th…”
Romo: Impulse's Helios stage is roughly the size of Falcon 1's second stage
“We've got our Helios program which is the build effectively at the third stage for medium launch vehicles. That's building a rocket stage. You know, it's like, it's roughly the same size as like the second stage of Falcon one, for example, like as a size of th…”
SpaceX built a Falcon 1 actuator for $3,900 versus vendor's $120,000 quote
“Consider the Falcon one actuator, a vendor quoted a 120,000 dollars in 18 months of development. SpaceX's engineers built it for 3900 dollars.”
SpaceX failed three orbital launch attempts before succeeding on the fourth
“The first three attempts at launching a rocket into orbit were failures. The fourth one succeeds.”