SpaceX, every mention
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every year anyone John Collison 23Julia DeWahl 6Casey Handmer 4Zach Abrams 2Sundar Pichai 2Matt Huang 1Elad Gil 1Daniel Gross 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where SpaceX comes up
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 32:37 Sundar Pichai Um, you know, crazy, it's not like a SpaceX rocket.
- ▶ 36:11 Elad Gil From a ownership perspective, you know, you own a reasonable amount of SpaceX, I think, I don't know the exact amount, but I think it was tennis percent way back when, Anthropic, tennis percent, the majority of Waymo, which is like an…
- ▶ 47:51 Sundar Pichai Not quite like, you know, like, you know, you take something complex like TSMC or SpaceX launching things, you are talking about system integration and these things in a very complex way.
- ▶ 50:52 unnamed speaker SpaceX, right? 2 times in the scene
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
- ▶ 12:02 Matt Huang But I was sort of surprised to realize that, uh, Coinbase has sued their primary regulator, uh, and GovTech, SpaceX, Andrew Palantir all had to sue, uh, for various reasons.
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
- ▶ 17:23 John Collison Some of our favorite examples, SpaceX uses Bridge to repatriate funds from Starlink sales in Argentina, Nigeria, and other markets.
Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military
- ▶ 1:23 John Collison So you started out as first Opendoor and then SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:05 Julia DeWahl I was working at SpaceX at the time when I first started reading about nuclear, and it was when I was actually working on getting StarLinks into Ukraine.
- ▶ 30:37 John Collison What lessons have you brought from your prior experience at SpaceX at Opendoor to building in Paris? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:22 Julia DeWahl You're up against the SpaceX's of the world that have just a lot more credibility, right?
- ▶ 37:51 Julia DeWahl I think that is, um, just like actually the, the NASA was a buyer for SpaceX's, uh, eventual launch product.
- ▶ 43:28 Julia DeWahl Like, if you want to work at SpaceX and you love space stuff, and you, you know, you want to be at that name brand place.
- ▶ 45:54 Julia DeWahl You can have the combative SpaceX culture. 2 times in the scene
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 3:58 Zach Abrams So, we help folks like SpaceX use stablecoins to move money cross-border.
- ▶ 8:25 Zach Abrams After that, we've seen, so SpaceX came to us, they're selling Starlink all over the world.
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 39:50 John Collison And I'm saying, if you think about kind of manufacturing today, SpaceX's Starlink terminal, um, manufacturing plant, which is very impressive and much larger scale than people realize.
- ▶ 42:18 Casey Handmer I used to think that, um, that probably was possible to build an organization as successful as SpaceX without, you know,
- ▶ 44:18 John Collison You've talked about how, uh, many SpaceX alumni 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:34 Casey Handmer and I got into SpaceX, what should I do? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:45 Casey Handmer It's like, uh, anything that you want from SpaceX, it's like, Starship will do it for you, and anything you want from Terraform, it's like, just solar panels plus other stuff.
Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing
- ▶ 1:20:24 John Collison You're a huge fan of SpaceX and, uh, big holder. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:32 Daniel Gross So you've got, uh, RAMP, uh, Stripe, uh, SpaceX, um, and, you know, maybe one day, of course, all these companies go public, but it would seem as if there's like a lot of later stage private companies now.
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 1:46:02 John Collison Uh, and so, you know, with SpaceX, uh, and, uh, uh, you know, as they were kind of building up the launch business, you know, dollars per kilo to orbit being the metric that we're going to optimize for. 3 times in the scene
A Cheeky Pint with Kyle Vogt, cofounder of Twitch, Cruise, and The Bot Company
- ▶ 11:52 John Collison I mean, famously with the Tesla master plan, they started with the Roadster, which was deliberately a low volume car, and then kind of worked their way up to higher volume cars with SpaceX.
- ▶ 11:52 John Collison They were selling launches to orbit from a very early stage and then progressively, you know, move from Falcon to Falcon Heavy to Starship.