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Fishner-Wolfson claims OpenAI and Anthropic have confidentially filed S-1s
“SpaceX is the big one to kind of start this, but, I mean, as you mentioned, like, OpenAI and Anthropic are both valid. They're S-one's confidentially, so it's gonna be a pretty interesting, you know, few quarters in the public markets.”
Wright: Space Data Centers Are Inevitable to Power Lunar and Martian Bases
“This is actually a debate that we have in terms of how soon it's going to happen, but it's definitely going to happen. Data centers in space is coming, and it makes sense, right? If you think about and you know, a lot of this is public, but what SpaceX is talk…”
Moore: Frontier tech companies are growing 100% at multi-billion-dollar run rates
“I mean, these companies are compounding it over a hundred percent year over year in the billions of run rate. We have never seen that before, right?”
Asparouhov: NASA paid SpaceX half of Boeing's price for identical workload
“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.”
Mathew: Elon Musk is reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail
“And so Elon reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors, I think is a really great thing.”
Armstrong: Coinbase saw strong volume on SpaceX pre-IPO perps
“So we launched with SpaceX, A few weeks ago before they went public, and we saw quite a lot of volume on there.”
Fishner-Wolfson says SpaceX equity creates life-changing wealth for shop-floor workers
“They've really shared equity across the entire company, which is incredible. And to your point, they have lots of people on the shop floor who literally make all of the stuff that matters. So the fact that this is life changing for so many people, I really thi…”
SpaceX's Merlin is the most reliable, highest thrust-to-weight engine ever
“My, probably 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.”
Rangwalla: SpaceX reached a $1.25T valuation in xAI transaction
“SpaceX is most recent, you know, when they did the transaction with XAI was 1.25 trillion dollars.”
Laffont: Top AI and tech unicorns will likely IPO within 24 months
“You know, some of them will probably go public in the next 12 to 24 months, so that'll be kind of one impact of it”
Maguire: SpaceX will deliver major direct-to-cell service by 2028
“And then I think in roughly twenty-twenty-eight, it's gonna be the year of direct to sell, and SpaceX talked about this publicly, but it's gonna take time, you know, they just acquired a bunch of spectrum, it takes time to get, you know, Antennas and phones op…”
Maguire: Starlink scaled to a $1B run rate within 12 months
“And then after Starlink got to about a billion of revenue, which was very fast, it was about 12 months after they got their first dollar of revenue, they were at about a billion of run rate,”
Asparouhov: Khosla is the only equity owner in OpenAI besides Microsoft
“Mattershund being the largest, you know, sort of investor
You know, in SpaceX, Coastal Ventures being the largest investor in Rocket Lab, and then in some ways more recently, you know, the only equity owner in OpenAI other than Microsoft.”
Venner: SpaceX scaled from 1 booster/year to 40 boosters/year
“When I joined SpaceX, it was again about a thousand employees producing about one booster a year. And through the years of growing up Warp Drive, the custom platform we built there, we scaled it up to 40 boosters a year and 9000 employees across multiple locat…”
Venner: SpaceX scaled from 1 to 40 boosters annually with Warp Drive
“When I joined SpaceX, it was again about a thousand employees, Producing about one booster a year, and through the years of growing up Warp Drive, the custom platform we built there, we scaled it up to 40 boosters a year and 9000 employees across multiple loca…”
SpaceX will launch close to 200 times this year, says Fishner-Wolfson
“They're going to launch, I don't know what to me this year, but like something close to 200 times. Like no one else in the world is launching even 15, 20 times, right?”
Maguire: SpaceX reported 9.2M Starlink consumer and 6M direct-to-cell subscribers
“SpaceX just announced that at the end of last year they had 9.2 million subscribers on the core charlene consumer side and six million direct to sell subscribers.”
SpaceX will complete more than 160 rocket launches in 2025
“I think it will for sure be above one 50, but given those options, above one 60, maybe even one 70.”
Garrett: SpaceX has only raised $10B over 23 years
“The company has only raised ten billion dollars in its life cycle as a 23 year old business.”
Weisburd: Founders Fund invests up to 25% of a fund in single positions
“He puts in every fund founders fund, I think puts up to 25%. Somebody could correct me, but up to 25%, a single position, they've done that with SpaceX, Airbnb, all these, you know, iconic companies.”
Beck: Electron is the world's second most launched rocket behind Falcon 9
“It's the second most frequently launched rocket in the world, ah, behind the Falcon nine.”
Black: Ken Venner built the operating systems that scaled SpaceX and Broadcom
“Ken built the operating system that helped scale SpaceX from hundreds of people to thousands of people and did the same thing at Broadcom in like the eighties.”
Black: SpaceX's Warp Drive software powered its entire manufacturing ecosystem
“Similar to the software system that SpaceX had, Warp Drive, that, like, powered the entire ecosystem of manufacturing. Like, we essentially are doing the same thing of how do you build this, like, custom-made manufacturing system for a very bespoke and unscala…”
SpaceX fixed the Falcon 1 by simply adding a stage separation delay
“That was the one where the second stage had hit the first stage, and so, you know, it wasn't fully successful, and I remember, I think I was standing next to Gwen or something, and she, you know, I was like, oh, you know, what, so how are you guys gonna fix th…”
Fishner-Wolfson: Founders Fund was SpaceX's first outside institutional investor
“Back at Founders Fund, we did the deal in, in, in, in that was sort of the beginning because at that point, Elon had mostly funded it himself. And we were really the first outside institutional capital.”
Fishner-Wolfson: SpaceX ran employee liquidity tender offers up to twice yearly
“SpaceX always sort of allowed liquidity for their employees and they were running tenders, you know, once a year probably back then. And then that kind of sped up to twice a year. And so like these were always company organized programs.”
Impulse Space's Helios vehicle can boost Mars payload capacity 5x
“This can take a large satellite, like a four ton satellite from low earth orbit at a couple hundred miles up to geosynchronous orbit at 22,000 miles. That's so basically escaping most of the gravity well over very high energy transfer. It can take, you know, f…”
Mueller met Elon Musk through amateur rocketry projects in his garage
“In fact, that's how I met Elon was through the amateur rocket stuff that I was doing.”
Romo: Falcon Heavy costs $70M to $80M more than Falcon 9
“When you look at, like, the difference between a Falcon nine and a Falcon Heavy, it's like 70, eighty million dollars, something like that historically.”
Romo: Tom Mueller was employee 001 in SpaceX's payroll system
“Tom, Tom was officially in the payroll system the first. Employee zero zero one.”
O'Shea: Sequoia has invested billions into SpaceX and Elon Musk companies
“I talked to Sean McGuire of Sequoia, who they've invested billions into SpaceX and Elon companies.”
Bernauer spent 12 years at SpaceX after consecutive launch failures
“Yeah, I spent 12 years at SpaceX had joined when they had failed two rockets in a row but I thought it was just a big and beautiful mission to lower the cost of launch, to make life multi-planetary and that's why I did that for 12 years, but I worked on all so…”