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Baker: Closed model dominance creates a tough environment for software companies
“A world where Anthropik, OpenAI, and, you know, maybe even SpaceX are kind of the only model providers that dominate the model layer, that is a hard world for software.”
Rodriques: $500-minimum private equity funds with SpaceX launching for unaccredited investors
“However, there are products coming to market. We can talk about this in detail later, that have 60 companies, including SpaceX, that are listed products for unaccredited, 500 dollar minimums, and that capital for those funds will be the underlying...”
Gerstner: 2021 is a better historical comparison for current AI valuations than 1999
“That is very different than Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX. These are extraordinarily real businesses, so I think the better compare is, like, twenty-twenty-one, right, where valuations get ahead of themselves, or they're at the top end of the range.”
Gavin Baker: Baillie Gifford was forced to sell SpaceX for regulatory reasons
“Bailey Gifford was forced to sell SpaceX last year for regulatory reasons.”
Gerstner: Secondary transactions equal 31% of primary VC activity in 2025
“This is the amount of employee secondary. So this is people buying into Anduril, Anthropic, SpaceX, now represents 31% of all primary venture activity. Is buying into these secondaries in 20, 25.”
Gerstner: SpaceX will use an innovative lockup structure for its IPO
“With respect to the lockup, I think this is the most innovative, and I think SpaceX is going to have a very similar innovation.”
Laffont: Governments and companies will seek to own private satellite constellations
“We believe that a wide variety of companies and governments and militaries will want to own their own constellations so they can control their own destiny.”
Laffont: Launch cadence is top driver of SpaceX valuation
“The number one driver correlated to the valuation of SpaceX is cadence of launches.”
Ackman: Amazon will have to become an even bigger SpaceX customer
“Even Amazon is going to have to become an even bigger customer because they're not, you know, Blue Origins, you know”
Chamath is currently risk-off and waiting for AI IPOs to de-lever
“I don't know, for me personally, I'm generally more risk off right now. And more importantly, I'm waiting for these IPOs so that I can, to be very honest with you, de-lever and get some chips off the table. I think that it is crucial that this SpaceX IPO get d…”
Gerstner: VCs are terrified to invest outside frontier AI, SpaceX, and defense
“Venture capitalists are terrified to invest money in anything other than these frontier models and things like SpaceX or military modernization.”
Stephens: Missing single category winners usually leads to net investment losses
“If you're a space tech investor and you didn't invest in SpaceX, you probably lost money. If you're a crypto infrastructure investor and you didn't invest in Coinbase, Probably lost money. If you're a social media investor and you didn't invest in Facebook, yo…”
Calacanis: SpaceX filed confidentially for IPO targeting $1.75T valuation
“SpaceX filed confidentially to go public on April first, targeting a 1.7 five trillion, with a T, valuation.”
Friedberg: SpaceX has largely built a backup internet through Starlink
“So in space, with the number of satellites going up with Starlink, and to actually deploy data centers that can output data on those nodes on that network, SpaceX has largely built a backup internet.”
Calacanis: At least two major tech unicorns will file IPOs in 2026
“Anticipate one of the following two will file. SpaceX, Android, Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI. I think two of those file, and it is going to be gangbusters.”
Musk predicts direct-to-cell Starlink smartphones will ship by 2027
“So the phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.”
Palihapitiya: Any launch alternative to SpaceX is years away
“The point is SpaceX is the best. There is nobody even close. The next closest alternative is years and years away.”
Calacanis: Peter Thiel is one of the greatest investors across business and politics
“Best investor for me was Peter Thiel, but on two tracks. Obviously Peter's been in some of the great companies through Founders Fund, including SpaceX, but he also picked Trump, he also picked Vance, and he also picked Sachs, so I think it's undeniable that Pe…”
Palihapitiya: SpaceX uses stablecoins to collect global Starlink payments
“The point is that a lot of companies that you would never think, so for example, SpaceX uses these stable coins.”
Friedberg: Boeing took a $1.6B loss on Starliner compared to SpaceX Dragon
“To date, by the way, Boeing has taken a 1.6 billion dollar financial hit On the development of this program. SpaceX, by the way, won a 2.6 billion dollar contract to develop the Crew Dragon capsule, and just to give you guys a sense, the Crew Dragon capsule ha…”
Musk: Probably over 50% chance Starship reaches orbit on second test
“So I'd say maybe it's like a, you know, above, I'd say probably above a 50% chance of getting to orbit this time, whereas previously I said below 50.”
Sacks: Craft Ventures plans to hold SpaceX investment until IPO
“I think we're going to wait till the company IPOs. I think that would be our default.”
Chamath: Elon Musk leads companies with female top executives across Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX
“He has a female chairman at Tesla, a female CEO at Twitter, and a female president at SpaceX.”
Gracias: SpaceX will need at least two to three months to rebuild launchpad
“It'll take at least two or three months to really get the pad rebuilt and get another vehicle back on for testing maybe longer.”
SpaceX and Tesla avoided 2008 bankruptcy by paying suppliers late
“I mean, both SpaceX and Tesla in 2008, if we'd simply paid our suppliers on time, we would have gone bankrupt immediately.”
Musk: Starlink revenue will enable a permanent moon base
“The revenue generated from Starlink is what can enable the of a permanently crewed base on the moon, which will be the next, you know, next step from Apollo”
Sacks: NASA lacked space transport capabilities between the Shuttle and SpaceX
“After the space shuttle was retired, NASA didn't even have a way to Get to space until SpaceX had the rockets.”
Chamath: Filing lawsuits alienates the top technical talent Blue Origin needs
“In order for Jeff to achieve his ambitions, he needs deeply technical people. And this is the simplest way to basically turn them off because this is not what technical people do.”
Friedberg breaks down Starlink Q2: $4.3B revenue, $2.6B EBITDA, 12M subscribers
“But the connectivity piece on Starlink, 4.3 billion in the quarter, and 2.6 billion in adjusted EBITDA. He's got twelve million subscribers. That's doubled year over year. 66 dollar ARPU per month what people are paying per month. And he grew 20% quarter over …”
Calacanis: SpaceX Q2 revenue hit $7.8B; Elon Web Services hit $2.6B
“7.8 billion in revenue up 92% year over year. Let that sink in. And 67% quarter over quarter AI revenue. Elon web services more than tripled quarter over quarter to 2.6 billion dollars.”
Sacks: Musk will hold SpaceX stock past one-year lockup
“He's under a one-year lockup, and I predict that he'll hold on for much longer than that because creating SpaceX is his life's work.”
Bill Ackman discloses investments in X, xAI, and SpaceX
“I actually invested in X. I invested in XAI. I'm in an SPV. Ron Barron said, Bill, you gotta invest in SpaceX. So I, so I'm in”
Calacanis: Starlink generated $11.4B in revenue and $4.4B in operating income
“Starlink did 11.4 billion in revenue last year on 50% growth with 4.4 billion in operating income.”
Baker estimates SpaceX will achieve rapid Starship reusability within 1-2 years
“I don't know when. I don't want to make a prediction. I would guess a year or two. Maybe sooner.”
Calacanis: SpaceX reduced space launch costs to 5% of former levels
“We now can get to space for, you know, five percent of the cost that we used to, thanks to Elon Musk and SpaceX.”
Friedberg: Space race will be defined by SpaceX versus China
“This is basically what I think is going to end up being the story over the next couple of years is the space race between effectively SpaceX's platform and technology versus China, which has effectively ripped off SpaceX as this is kind of being described here…”
Friedberg: SpaceX reduced orbit launch costs tenfold to ~$1,000/kg over a decade
“When this took off, It was about 10,000 bucks a kilogram to put a small sat into space or to put material into space. And then SpaceX has dropped the cost to the point that it's now close to a thousand dollars a kilogram. So a 10 X reduction in cost in just th…”
Friedberg: SpaceX's Starship is the largest object to ever fly in space
“And here he is at the end of this period of time with this incredible craft, the largest object to ever fly in outer space.”
Gracias: SpaceX Starship's interior volume equals the International Space Station
“It's important to know that like the size of this thing to give a sense of scale is the interior space of it is the size of the International Space Station.”
David Sacks predicts Starlink will be a phenomenal business
“And I think Starlink's going to be A phenomenal business.”
Calacanis: Starlink enterprise internet backup business could become ginormous
“So I could see many companies putting in Starlink, even if they have a fiber line or whatever, just as a backup, that business alone could be ginormous.”
Valor doubled down on Tesla and SpaceX during the 2008 crisis
“We put more money in Tesla than we were in the financial crisis, and then helped lead a convert round there that was really tough for us to do, and then put money in SpaceX.”
Friedberg: Musk couldn't have funded Tesla and SpaceX without selling PayPal
“Elon sold PayPal and he was able to use that money to reinvest in Tesla and SpaceX. I think Elon's putting all the money back into two companies that are solving two major issues for humanity. He wouldn't have been able to do that if he hadn't sold in the firs…”
Chamath: Relativity Space is second most valuable private spaceflight firm
“A company called relativity space is now the second most valuable private spaceflight company after SpaceX.”
Friedberg: Google owns significant stakes in SpaceX and Anthropic
“They have a significant ownership stake in SpaceX and in Anthropic, and they can work with all the open weights models.”
Sacks: Starship launches will add over 20x more Starlink bandwidth
“So basically, SpaceX has developed a new V-III satellite that has 10 X the bandwidth of its V-II satellite. So currently the Starlink network is powered by V-II satellites They deploy them on the Falcon nine rocket, and they launch about 27 satellites per laun…”