SpaceX

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11 statements across 7 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 1, 2025 by John Collison · said 42 times in 9 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Oct 1, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Collison: Elon Musk's companies have historically been unusually capital-efficient
“Elon's companies have always been very capital efficient and like build a bad one and then build a good one. And so the boring company bought a commercial tunnel boring machine before they started developing their own. Tesla had the master plan where they buil…”
John Collison Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 1:48:07 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
Oct 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sundheim: SpaceX will capture more global telecom market than expected
“And I think that will continue in a way that probably surprises people, in that like, I think SpaceX will probably capture more of the global, Telecommunications market than people expect.”
Dan Sundheim Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 1:22:10 Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
Oct 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
SpaceX can triple in value without relying on speculative new use cases
“Like, I look at it and say, like, I think the business can triple Without having to make any big bets about people traveling 30 minutes across the world or, you know, data centers in space.”
Dan Sundheim Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 1:23:13 Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Sundheim: Elon Musk is an even better businessperson than inventor
“I think he's a better business person than he is inventor. He's amazing at both, but like, people don't understand, like, he just naturally understands, like, just get the cost down, and that's very hard to compete against.”
Dan Sundheim Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 1:24:28 Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
Oct 28, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Working at SpaceX causes the same psychic damage as grad school
“The psychic damage is the same, but the pay is better at SpaceX which is hard to believe, but true.”
Casey Handmer Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 46:36 Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
Oct 28, 2025 positive
Insight
Handmer: US must maintain domestic electronics manufacturing via automation to rapidly prototype
“If you want to have the ability to, like, rapidly prototype electronic systems, you've got to have that here, servicing, servicing the US market, which is the strongest consumer market on earth. There's no reason you can't do it. No, you don't want to have, li…”
Casey Handmer Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 38:39 Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
Oct 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
SpaceX controls approximately 95% of the global space launch market
“In the space sector, at least, it's quite astounding the extent to which SpaceX is dominant. Right. This is not the case that, like, Apple has, what, 2030, 40% market share in smartphones, and Pixel has 10%, and Huawei and so on has a, this is like, SpaceX has…”
Casey Handmer Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 45:12 Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
Nov 4, 2025 positive
Disclosure
SpaceX uses Bridge to repatriate Starlink revenue via stablecoins, says Abrams
“SpaceX came to us, they're selling Starlink all over the world. And so as a result, they're collecting local, so people are paying for Starlink and, you know, dozens, many dozens of different countries with their cards. So they're getting local currencies in a…”
Zach Abrams Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 8:25 Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
Nov 25, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DeWahl: SpaceX culture does not emphasize writing things down
“They don't write that much stuff down in SpaceX.”
Julia DeWahl Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 45:59 Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military
Feb 24, 2026
Assertion Supported
Collison: SpaceX uses Bridge for Starlink fund repatriation in emerging markets
“SpaceX uses Bridge to repatriate funds from Starlink sales in Argentina, Nigeria, and other markets.”
John Collison Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 17:23 Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Huang: Tech companies suing regulators is more common than conventional wisdom suggests
“Coinbase has sued their primary regulator and GovTech, SpaceX, Andrew Palantir all had to sue for various reasons. So it seems like it's actually more common than Silicon Valley conventional wisdom.”
Matt Huang Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 12:02 Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
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