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Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:30 Trae Stephens Tesla and SpaceX where there was already a lot of government intersect.
- ▶ 14:24 Trae Stephens Um, I think like broadly across the defense industry, uh, this is a pattern that you saw happen with both Palantir and SpaceX as well, is that the big players, the primes, they don't really pay attention at all until their lunch is being…
- ▶ 17:09 Trae Stephens We always had sort of an unfair advantage in that, you know, three of the co-founders were from Palantir, and then a bunch of our early team were from places like Tesla and SpaceX, where there was already a lot of government intersect. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:03 Emil Michael Everyone talks about Andrel and Palantir and SpaceX.
- ▶ 29:26 Emil Michael You know, I like, um, you know, everyone talks about Android and Palantir and SpaceX.
Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:55 Philip Clark As a kid, my heroes were Oppenheimer working on the Manhattan Project, or Claude Shannon working at Bell Labs, or Elon Musk, you know, starting SpaceX when I was four or five years old.
- ▶ 5:12 Philip Clark Um, Mesh is a pair of founders from SpaceX named Travis and Cameron, who I actually knew back from college and then went to work on the Starlink photonics team.
- ▶ 18:51 Philip Clark You know, if you were Elon starting SpaceX in the early 2000 or, uh, Palmer and Brian and Trey and Matt starting, uh, uh, and role in the late 20 tens, there wasn't actually a huge population 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:50 Philip Clark All those people who invest in the early stages of SpaceX and and we're really regretting it, right? 6 times in the scene
$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 24:47 David Ulevitch Um, the second thing is that there's more and more successful American Dynamism companies, and especially if you include people like SpaceX and Tesla, um, that the, the alumni and Palantir, and like, the alumni coming out of these…
How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:26 David Ulevitch All these people coming out of companies that sort of paved the way, like Palantir, Tesla, SpaceX, are now having all these alumni that are leaving and starting great companies.
- ▶ 22:50 David Ulevitch But when you look at a company like SpaceX that's still private, 2 times in the scene
How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 53:06 Molly O'Shea Okay, I, I interview a lot of SpaceX alums, and it seems like a SpaceX problem. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:00 Zach Dell What SpaceX did to aerospace, what Android did to defense, no one has done to energy.
- ▶ 5:28 Zach Dell Uh, take, you know, space spacex, obviously valor is an early investor there.
- ▶ 9:37 Zach Dell He came from, you know, he led the laser topology team at SpaceX, the team that built the mesh that connects all the satellites in space.
- ▶ 12:46 Zach Dell And then, um, when I was at Thrive, we made, you know, large investments in SpaceX and in Anduril. 5 times in the scene
Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 12:49 Ashlee Vance Because it's funny, where you have, you have different rocket startups trying to do ostensibly the same thing, and, and a bunch of the people have similar backgrounds, and maybe they've even had a few people from SpaceX that have built a…
- ▶ 23:20 Ashlee Vance Something closer to like, uh, overnight success, even though, even that usually takes longer, but on the hardware side, I think everything worthwhile, even, you know, like SpaceX. 4 times in the scene
Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:43 Pete Shadbolt TSMC, ASML, SpaceX, Nvidia, OpenAI.
- ▶ 21:10 Pete Shadbolt And it's baffling to me that people ask this question because just look at the most consequential, durably valuable, strategically important, geopolitically significant companies of our age, TSMC, ASML, SpaceX, Nvidia, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:45 Pete Shadbolt Um, so what happens inside TSMC, what happens in an ASML EUV machine, you know, programming a 100,000 GPU Nvidia cluster, operating a Raptor engine from, uh, SpaceX or designing a payload that's going to go on a launch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:28 Pete Shadbolt Like TSMC, ASML, SpaceX, NVIDIA, like you earn your place in that list and they're not there yet.
- ▶ 1:23:21 Pete Shadbolt Obviously, like, those guys, that category of late stage crossover type people, they were in SpaceX, they were, they were in NVIDIA, they were in ASML when ASML was pretty, uh, crazy.
- ▶ 1:52:12 Pete Shadbolt Um, again, I'll just emphasize that the number of people who directly interface with the products of TSMC, ASML, SpaceX, NVIDIA, like how many people do a tape out of TSMC?
Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 12:57 Ashlee Vance The difference between SpaceX and something like Blue Origin that started about the same time, um, you know, I think Blue Origin's, like, coming on now, but they've had 20 years where SpaceX has just been lapping them, it's, like, taken…
- ▶ 25:55 Ashlee Vance Yeah, I would do that, especially on a SpaceX rocket.
The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 47:50 Billy Talheimer I think to some extent, one of the impressive things about like all of this stuff going on in mobility right now is the lack of AI in some cases, like SpaceX brings the rocket home and lands them.
- ▶ 56:37 Molly O'Shea You have employees from Rivian, Tesla, SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 57:45 Apoorv Agrawal I suspect there's a class of companies now like SpaceX, uh, like Stripe that have found a way to have repeatable liquidity for their employees at a regular cadence, let's say, 12 to 18 months. 2 times in the scene
How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:07 Drew Oetting I think between Palantir and SpaceX, um, they really, one is that that is a talent pool that a lot of folks draw on when either they want to sell the federal government, uh, or when they want to, uh, build physical infrastructure and scale…
How The Rarest Company On Earth Raised $75M from Altimeter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 14:54 John Maslin He was a boots on the ground SpaceX engineer for several years, and then, uh, was a senior manufacturing engineer at Ursa Major.
- ▶ 25:38 John Maslin So our COO, his challenge was when he started the company, I told him, go and build a team like you would have seen at SpaceX or at Ursa Major, where you were moving, you were executing, you were kicking down hard engineering problems…
Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:53 Isaiah Taylor I mean, listen, like, you know, SpaceX, you know, launches 80% of the world's, you know, kilograms to orbit, right?
- ▶ 32:56 JC Btaiche And right now, the only reason we have to do it, and I believe, like, companies like SpaceX have to do it, is because, you know, just the culture of suppliers now, they're always late, because, you know, it's increased your cost plus…
Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 7:33 Molly O'Shea You can explain it all, but you've been at SpaceX, you're at Founders Fund, you've been helping out some really critical, uh, national interest companies within Founders Fund, and you were talking about the playbook that these companies… 4 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race & Reindustrialization | Christian Garrett, 137 Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 9:09 Christian Garrett You know, I think, uh, obviously I'm still going to be extremely bullish for just the opportunity within, uh, aerospace and defense for, you know, uh, some of our largest positions like SpaceX and Andrew.
How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 56:01 Samir Vasavada I think so, because SpaceX is probably gonna do a new tender, and he's gonna be really rich from that.
How Palantir Is Modernizing the Military With AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:16 Greg Little So if you take SpaceX as an example,
Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:45 Chris Power I don't think there's going to be more SpaceX's.
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:03 Jack Altman OpenAI, SpaceX, Stripe, Databricks, Andrel.
- ▶ 15:48 Jack Altman Like, you got to own 10% of SpaceX, like, good luck. 2 times in the scene
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:06 Molly O'Shea Let's get you on a dragon capsule.
Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:48 Stephen Slattery Yeah, when I was getting ready to leave Andrel, really the two main things for me, one was a very small, extremely high caliber team, and I had a pretty high bar coming from Andrel, and then before that, SpaceX, and meeting the initial… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:17 Cameron McCord Um, and the world is very much like Steven mentioned SpaceX, but even now Anderil and other places have sort of Tesla flipped that paradigm where, um, the power in hardware development just comes from like how tightly you can iterate, um,…
- ▶ 25:59 Stephen Slattery And I think, you know, maybe it's the, this like misconstruing of companies like Andrel and SpaceX that have espoused this idea of vertical integration. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:59 Stephen Slattery SpaceX. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:47 unnamed speaker Connect is extremely exciting and close to my heart because my work at SpaceX and my work at Sierra Space before that was very, very close to the hardware, right at the edge, as people would say.
- ▶ 49:02 Stephen Slattery But as everybody's migrating to more common data models, and you have also this diaspora of SpaceX and and role engineers going out into the world and bringing these best practices to industries like nuclear, like maritime, um, we can go…
- ▶ 53:16 Cameron McCord Um, we came across at a really exciting time where they had actually just brought in a new, I think then, you know, sort of VP of hardware engineering, but this gentleman by the name of armor Harris, very well known, I think in the space X… 2 times in the scene
How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:45 Molly O'Shea Companies like SpaceX, Andurl, K-Two Space, and some more.
- ▶ 10:50 Eric Crispin You know, trained or had success at Palantir and Tesla and SpaceX and etc.
- ▶ 12:46 Eric Crispin You know, obviously our investment, you know, in SpaceX helped inform our investment in K-II.
- ▶ 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… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:12 Eric Crispin As we've seen with SpaceX, um, you know, they do biannual tenders, um, where if you're an early stage investor or an employee, um, there's opportunities for liquidity, and they've done that very successfully, and you're gonna continue to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:45 Eric Crispin I don't know if we're going to get stuck with it, but I certainly think that, you know, what SpaceX has done works well for them and their employees and like all stakeholders and shareholders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:53 Molly O'Shea How many launches will SpaceX have this year?
Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:14 Bucky Moore The SpaceX's, the Anduril's, the OpenAI's, the Anthropics.
- ▶ 10:18 Bucky Moore Question, which is, do you believe that OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX are foreshadowing of what's to come? 2 times in the scene
Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 18:36 Chris Josephs On the other side, you got, you know, Trump with all of his businesses, all of that stuff, but JD Vance, ex-VC, ex-Founders Fund, you know, invested in Anduril, invested in, um, SpaceX.
Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 7:07 Zach Schendel The difference is that the energy industry doesn't have a SpaceX and it doesn't have, have an Android role. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:42 Zach Schendel I got a really close look at companies like SpaceX and, and OpenAI and Anduril and RAMP and these companies that were scaling really quickly, building really strong teams, kind of taking big swings at large markets and, uh, was inspired… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:52 Molly O'Shea I was actually really curious, the more that you explain the process out, compared to, let's say, like, the greater energy landscape, if, if you're seeing base as, like, the SpaceX, the Andurl of energy, how do you see where the value is…
- ▶ 50:36 Zach Schendel And, you know, we've had top engineers from companies like Tesla and SpaceX and Android and Apple and kind of all, you know, many of the top technology companies that folks know reach out to us and say, Hey, I want to be a part of that…
Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 7:33 Delian Asparouhov Um, the entire structure of the contract is kind of insane in that they literally just, you know, gave SpaceX the same workload, but said the price for you doing it is going to be half of Boeing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:12 Delian Asparouhov Um, that has a phenomenal track record largely, you know, from SpaceX and some heritage from the crew and the cargo dragon project, which while much larger reentry vehicles, um, at the end of the day, you know, were reentry vehicles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Molly O'Shea Can you share some insights on this or maybe even from the customer perspective, why you would use Relativity versus SpaceX? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:37 Delian Asparouhov Um, we get regulated by the FAA, both as a part of our launch on SpaceX's rocket, as well as our re-entries.
- ▶ 32:13 Delian Asparouhov Um, the next generation space defense prime is SpaceX. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 Delian Asparouhov Obviously, you know, groups like SpaceX, Palantir, and all et cetera had been for a lot or around for a very long time.
- ▶ 37:16 Delian Asparouhov Um, and, you know, honestly, very few of these companies, outside of literally just Andrel, um, and, like, Palantir, have actually delivered on capabilities that are meaningful for the Warfighter and SpaceX.
SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:47 Molly O'Shea Um, SpaceX does one pretty regularly.
- ▶ 5:04 Molly O'Shea One 37 ventures has invested in SpaceX, Palantir, Uber, Andrel, Flexport, Figma, and more. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:37 Molly O'Shea I would assume one of these generational companies is SpaceX. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Christian Garrett I mean, I think, you know, we've talked about SpaceX and Stripe Databricks. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Christian Garrett Gwen Shotwell, one of the best operators, if not the best operator in industry, president of SpaceX. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 Christian Garrett This is why SpaceX, uh, right, you know, first, first built, uh, and really concentrated here and put their HQ here was because you had a ton of aerospace talent locally.
- ▶ 27:16 Christian Garrett Like SpaceX, Anderle, Palantir, um, these companies were not obvious or consensus.
- ▶ 49:17 Christian Garrett Um, SpaceX benefited a ton from the fact that the government just basically shut down NASA and Russia also invaded Crimea at the time, excuse me, not Crimea, Russia invaded Georgia at the time.
- ▶ 58:46 Christian Garrett So, I mean, like, you know, SpaceX and Android are down, uh, down in Southern California.
How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:29 Packy McCormick Uh, and so I guess like the shorter way of saying it is like SpaceX and Android for everything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:44 Packy McCormick It's harder to kind of come in and, and, uh, as like a new startup and knock it down, you've actually probably as one of those companies that starts working, like you look at the SpaceX cap table and it's like actually amazing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:55 Packy McCormick So like you want to be like his whole thing is they want to be the, uh, NNSA, the National Nuclear Safety Administration's, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:34 Molly O'Shea Obviously space X is in a different category because now they just have recurring like tender offers and like, that's fine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:06 Packy McCormick And he was like, no, we should do SpaceX, because they've, you know, they've done more launches. 3 times in the scene