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every year anyone Eric Romo 21Tom Mueller 5Shaun Maguire 5Justin Fishner-Wolfson 4Justin White 3Doug Bernauer 3Sir Peter Beck 2Eric Crispin 2Scott Nolan 1Scott Morton 1

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Inside Rocket Lab: How Sir Peter Beck Is Building Neutron’s Engines | Tour 02 Aug 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 Sir Peter Beck This is the rocket that we fly the most of right now, so it's lined 93 times the second most frequently launched rocket in the world behind the Falcon Nine.
  • ▶ 15:17 Sir Peter Beck It's the second most frequently launched rocket in the world, ah, behind the Falcon nine.

Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:16 Jordan Black I was the manager of the research and development team for electronics, so I did a little bit of everything that went into a rocket and a satellite, and wire harvesting was the bane of our existence, and we outsourced 95% of it for Falcon

SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1% · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:36 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And so a combination of a business model shift and then making, you know, the Falcon nine partially usable fundamentally changed the economics of the business.
  • ▶ 25:50 Justin Fishner-Wolfson Like, you know, there were some of the, you know, the old launches, like I remember going down to Hawthorne for like the third Falcon one launch. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:53 Justin Fishner-Wolfson So, and then they scrapped the Falcon one for the Falcon nine.

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:31 Brian Singerman Like, it's still pretty amazing, and so, and one of my greatest, you know, startup camaraderie moments in history, in my career, was being able to, like, go to the Hawthorne office, when we did get the first successful Falcon one,

Tom Mueller: SpaceX's #1 Employee Built the Merlin Engine. Now He's Building Impulse Space · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 4, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Tom Mueller I led the development of the propulsion systems for Falcon and Dragon, and also started the origins of what became Starship.
  • ▶ 0:09 Tom Mueller My proudest development was the Merlin engine, which is currently flying on Falcon nine, the most reliable rocket engine ever developed, and also the highest thrust of weight of any rocket engine ever developed.
  • ▶ 7:43 Tom Mueller It can take, you know, five tons of payload, uh, to the moon on a Falcon nine. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:09 Tom Mueller I developed, I led the development of the, the propulsion systems for Falcon and Dragon, and, and also started the origins of what became Starship.

Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 2, 2026 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 7:28 Eric Romo You know, it's like, it's roughly the same size as like the second stage of Falcon one, for example, like as a size of the, the, the program, that's a big undertaking.
  • ▶ 13:06 Eric Romo So Tom and I have this conversation, and he said, well, you know, maybe Mira's our Falcon one. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:36 Eric Romo Is they'll launch on a Falcon nine, um, or presumably another launch vehicle, but basically on Falcon nine. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:38 Eric Romo So the, uh, alternative to this is you go direct to GEO, and so the, the main spacecraft, the main launch vehicle that goes direct to GEO right now is Falcon Heavy. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:11 Eric Romo Um, so there's a, there's a pretty good amount of value there, but the interesting thing is, and, and, you know, I don't know how much of this is still on the website, but when you look at, like, the difference between a Falcon nine and a… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:11 Eric Romo Um, so there's a, there's a pretty good amount of value there, but the interesting thing is, and, and, you know, I don't know how much of this is still on the website, but when you look at, like, the difference between a Falcon nine and a… 2 times in the scene

Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:28 Scott Morton Worked on a lot of the propellant load sequence for Falcon nine, which is, you know, I was like, prior to that, working on, you know, robots in a lab.

Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 28, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15 Shaun Maguire Like, really it became a serious issue in November, 2018, which was out two years after they'd been doing reusable Falcon nine flights. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:53 Shaun Maguire A decade trying to get from almost a decade from Falcon nine to Falcon nine reusable, and then very quickly they get Starlink going.

Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:52 Ashlee Vance and they start getting closer to flying their main rocket, the Falcon nine, a bit more often, and then all of a sudden you get to like

Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:09 Scott Nolan We were working on the Falcon one vehicle and the NASA commercial orbital transportation services contract, which was structured.

How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:33 Eric Crispin Karan and Neil, the founders of K-II brothers, um, you know, Neil, uh, spent a bunch of years at, at SpaceX, and the team is just an incredible, you know, group of, of, of sort of engineers, uh, that were long tenured at, at SpaceX, kind… 2 times in the scene

Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:20 Justin White The first part was on, uh, the Falcon nine was, was, uh, the new design for the, they called block five at the time. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:33 Justin White Basically becoming the, also the, the version of the Falcon Heavy.

Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:31 Mark Suster Um, because Falcon nine, um, by SpaceX has reduced the cost per kilogram by 90% to launching payload into space.

Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer on Portable Nuclear Microreactors & the Future of Clean Energy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 31, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15 Doug Bernauer So, you know, I started off working on Falcon One integration, which is the only rocket we had, and it was, everyone was working on it in some regard,
  • ▶ 3:22 Doug Bernauer Uh, and then later I worked on Falcon nine, the first ground system for that, uh, the hardware loop system for Falcon nine. 2 times in the scene
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