SpaceX

“60% of all satellites in Earth's orbit are now from Starlink.”

“I think he's been a net good for the world. inspired the EV race. The space, I mean, seeing that rocket, that booster rocket captured on it as it's falling, that shit's just inspiring.”

“I think he interviewed the first 3000 hires at SpaceX himself.”

“They'd spent months trying to, like, weld a dome for Starship that fit over the, this, like stainless steel cone that was gonna go over the top of the rocket, and they hadn't gotten it done for months, and he just showed up at the site, was like, we're gonna h…”

“For reference, like your iPhone, like the raw materials of your iPhone is like 30% or a car is like 30%. So that's like a good ratio for a complex manufactured product. But aerospace, when he looked into rockets, the rocket as a whole, he did an X was like a t…”

“He famously stacked Starship, like, months before it was even close to launch, and it wasn't because it needed to be done, it wasn't because it was a bottleneck, but he said now people started sharing photos of this absolutely behemoth rocket, and it started t…”

“To do both of these, like, generation-defining, singular companies that were on nobody's radar, that are now, I think, on the way to being the biggest companies on Earth.”

“You know, the rule of thumb in startups is like you, you're a different organization every time you triple in headcount. Or roughly an order of magnitude, right? And so, what he says is like, what looks like a three-year churn is actually a full tour of duty. …”

“People don't realize SpaceX was not originally a company. It was a philanthropic mission. He had Almost two hundred million dollars from their sale of PayPal. And his first plan was to just shoot a rocket to Mars. Have a little greenhouse on the surface of Mar…”

“SpaceX is one of Founders Fund's biggest positions over multiple funds, and they're gonna have an unbelievable windfall with this IPO.”

“You know, that, that SpaceX mafia or the Tesla mafia are going to be like a really incredible set of companies are going to tackle much bigger problems than we've seen startups tackle in the past.”

“So I mean, just here in Austin, we have like three groups that have made 10 to fifty billion dollars on that.”

“Like SpaceX went public, 4400 people became millionaires on that day. 400 people became deca-millionaires.”