SpaceX
42 statements across 20 episodes · 15 bullish · 8 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 19, 2024 by Jessica Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about SpaceX, oldest first
Jul 19, 2024 negative
Jessica Lessin: Musk times planned business moves to match sensational political headlines
“Musk, in my mind, you know, makes strategic business decisions all day long and then waits for a headline to announce them to make it seem like the assassination attempt got his endorsement or that a new law in California around LGBTQ kids caused him to move a…”
Oct 18, 2024 negative
Dave Morin: SpaceX Took Longer Securing Regulatory Approval Than Building Starship
“My favorite. Interview tidbit with Elon last week that I saw was that it took them more time to get the approval to do the launch of the rocket that they launched last week than it took them to actually build the rocket. So they built a, whatever, a 20, 25 sto…”
Oct 18, 2024 positive
Lessin: Musk won aerospace talent because legacy competitors' cultures were so bad
“Elon did a very good job selecting places to build where the cultures were so bad at the competitors that he could kind of be a dick and also push people really hard. And the working environment didn't have to be that great because if you want to work on rocke…”
Oct 18, 2024 positive
Oct 18, 2024 negative
Lessin: Investors back Musk's weaker ventures solely to access SpaceX
“It's this weird dynamic that's developed because he's the kind of key person in all these companies where people fund these things or his dalliances, even Twitter, right? For access to the actually good stuff. And so you end up in this weird zone where like, I…”
Mar 14, 2025 bearish
Sam Lessin: Getting humans to Mars during Trump's administration is impossible
“Everyone, you know, you're up there applauding like this, like window, we're going to get to Mars in Trump's administration. And it's absolute horseshit. Like we, like there aren't even window launch windows open for that to happen.”
Mar 14, 2025 positive
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Brit Morin: Silicon Valley sentiment toward Elon Musk is roughly 60-40 favorable
“I would say not 75%, but maybe sixty-forty favorable to Elon out here, and I think it's because of, there's just so many fanboys and a few fangirls of SpaceX and the rockets, and they caught them on toothpicks, and humanoid robots, and autonomous vehicles, and…”
Mar 28, 2025 neutral
Jessica Lessin: Elon Musk controls SpaceX secondaries based on his daily mood
“There's just no venture capitalist who wants to be on bad terms with him, either because they want in on the next deal, or they just want preferential terms in the SpaceX secondaries, which he controls literally based on how many people emailed him in what ord…”
May 30, 2025 neutral
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Jessica Lessin: OpenAI has a 90% chance of going public by 2027
“I will say I'm 40% 2026, but like 90% 2027. So I think there is a re reasonable chance next year, and like, I just think they're not gonna go a Stripe, a SpaceX, and all that kind of stuff. Like, they're just not. The body language is totally different.”
Aug 29, 2025 bullish
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Dec 19, 2025 bullish
Apr 17, 2026 neutral
Apr 17, 2026 neutral
Sam Lessin: Capital gains taxes create an artificial floor under mega-cap stocks
“I'd rather just be long it and hold it, because you'd have to believe, not only is SpaceX overvalued, you have to have the opinion that it's so bad, right, that it's gonna underperform the rest of the market by 50% from where it is, for it to be worth taking t…”
Apr 17, 2026 neutral
Apr 17, 2026 bullish
Jessica Lessin: Public market investors are trimming Mag 7 for upcoming mega IPOs
“And I gotta say by and large, and it's anecdotal, but there are enough of them. They are very, very excited about these companies and they're selling down their mag seven positions a little bit to, or preparing to like go all in on these companies.”
Apr 17, 2026 bullish
Apr 17, 2026
Apr 17, 2026 neutral
Apr 17, 2026 bullish
Lessin: SpaceX share supply will stay low post-IPO while index buying drives demand
“There's going to be less supply and you think of shares, right? And then the demand for shares will have much less to do with like a specific thesis They will be like, yeah, you kind of have to buy it because it's huge, right? Like if you're indexing a bunch o…”
Apr 24, 2026
Elon Musk to get massive comp plan in SpaceX IPO
“The information reported this week, not only unsurprisingly, is he getting super voting shares in the SpaceX IPO, but he now Elon has a really aggressive comp plan as well that will give him tens of millions of shares if I think the market cap goes to 6.6 tril…”
May 1, 2026 bullish
May 8, 2026 neutral
May 22, 2026 positive
May 22, 2026 bullish
May 22, 2026
Jun 5, 2026 neutral
Jun 5, 2026 neutral
Jun 5, 2026 neutral
Jun 5, 2026 neutral
Jun 5, 2026 bearish
Jun 12, 2026 bullish
Jun 19, 2026 neutral
Jun 19, 2026 bearish
Jun 19, 2026 bullish
Jun 19, 2026 neutral
Jul 10, 2026 neutral
Aug 7, 2026 negative
Sam Lessin: Elon Musk priced SpaceX to bail out xAI and Twitter investors
“He bailed out his XAI people. He bailed out his Twitter people. He bailed everyone out, right? So Elon gets to be the guy who makes everyone money, and if you're a SpaceX shareholder, you're like, whatever, you kind of got robbed on a few things, but number bi…”
Aug 7, 2026 neutral
Dave Morin: Elon Musk claimed a $1T revenue target moved up a year
“The one-liner was that they have now moved, what, they've moved up one year their one trillion dollar revenue number. That was the kind of funny Elon quote from the earnings call, that things are going so well That they're going to hit one trillion one year ea…”
Aug 21, 2026 bearish
SpaceX is priced like a meme stock driven by media headlines
“Like SpaceX is a meme. It's a great meme. It's an awesome meme. Like, SpaceX, like Moderna, has every ability to pop out headlines that people are going to go nuts for. But, you know, it isn't that dissimilar from a GME, not in that they don't do amazing thing…”