SpaceX

“And it's kind of a funny question of what would have happened if Elon had responded faster. I probably would have gone to SpaceX just because, I don't know, hedge fund versus rocket ship company. I might be tempted by the rocket ship company for the summer.”

“The rockets have, in fact, got cheaper. Just the last five or so years, they've gone down about fourfold, and mainly because of SpaceX. SpaceX, with its reusable rockets, has brought the price down”

“Companies like Stripe, SpaceX they've gone to a hundred billion plus valuations as private companies, so you don't need to go public anymore.”

“Our first handful of employees were Former co-workers of mine from SpaceX and Blue Origin, including my boss from SpaceX and my boss from Blue Origin.”

“You know, I had worked at SpaceX, I was at the time working at Blue Origin, and both of those companies to me felt like first movers, and it just struck me that the next wave shouldn't be duplicating the first movers. There's got to be something added on, or s…”

“They were focused much more on the human side of space flight, and frankly, what won me over was the engine technology. Blue Origin had a completely different architecture, so I could work on a more complicated machine.”

“One of the first steps was actually selling all of my SpaceX stock.”

“So SpaceX has given us a launch date for January 12th of 2024. We have a five day window to get off. There's only a certain amount of days per month that you can fly to the moon where it's in the right position to where we can land at our designated landing si…”