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OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation
- ▶ 15:42 unnamed speaker Uh, with Rocketmaker, SpaceX, AI company, Anthropic, and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac among the companies looking at listings in 2026.
Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction
- ▶ 0:02 unnamed speaker SpaceX is potentially going out, gonna hoover up thirty billion of capital. 6 times in the scene
OpenAI ENDS Vesting Cliff
- ▶ 19:12 John Coogan The, the SpaceX IPO, if they raise thirty billion, will be lower than the forty billion that OpenAI, um, offered.
- ▶ 21:22 Jordan Higgins He posted earlier today that, that figure is looking quite cheap now in comparison to SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:02 John Coogan SpaceX IPO under the Christmas tree. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Jordi Hays After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. 15 times in the scene
Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:55 Jordi Hays SpaceX is responsible for 2 times in the scene
Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:05 unnamed speaker I would like to, I would like to know how much, uh, SpaceX exposure Gavin has.
Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:28 unnamed speaker SpaceX tells investors it's aiming for a late- twenty-twenty-six IPO. 5 times in the scene
Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:27 John Coogan It's only the second company in history to land a rocket booster after SpaceX. 16 times in the scene
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:45 John Coogan I think the broader point that he's making is something along the lines of like, I saw some other post about like, there will be fortunes made just by getting, uh, getting retail investors and the broader capital that's out there in the…
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:28 unnamed speaker SpaceX has become the best hope at the reversal of this, and Elon has been much more focused on Mars than the moon, and so the debate around Isaacman centers on this tie, on his ties to Elon Musk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:30 unnamed speaker He said SpaceX will lean in big on the moon.
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 17:31 Shaun Maguire It was, like, easy to give up on them, and that may sound crazy given the scale they're at today, but, you know, also with Elon, like, SpaceX and Tesla were on the verge of death, um, at multiple points, and when you have these, when you…
- ▶ 20:21 Shaun Maguire What's going to happen to the space economy over the next 10 years on the back of SpaceX and Starship.
- ▶ 22:37 unnamed speaker On the, on the SpaceX front, how, uh, there's been a lot of news over the last few weeks around, uh, direct to sell, uh, partnerships between like SpaceX and, and other, you know, uh, you know, uh, device manufacturers, et cetera. 6 times in the scene
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
- ▶ 7:23 Andrew Ross Sorkin He creates what was then probably like the SpaceX of America.
- ▶ 8:02 Andrew Ross Sorkin Like, we always say speculation is a dirty word or a bad word, but, you know, the original investors in SpaceX or in Tesla who probably thought the whole thing was insane were speculating.
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 4:08 Alexis Ohanian It's, it was a, it was one of those dangerous, it's one of those dangerous first investments in a sector, because then, you know, you end up thinking you're, you're a genius at it, but, uh, but Andy Laps and the team are doing a hell of a…
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 33:08 Catherine Boyle So I think the sort of the, I mean, this comes back from like, you know, the, the SpaceX principles of manufacturing, which I think are relevant for any company, um, that's building in, in the world of atoms.
- ▶ 42:11 John Coogan And the original SpaceX thesis was... 5 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 1:11:55 unnamed speaker I have a 10 year fund and realistically all the best venture investments, SpaceX is still hanging out in the portfolio.
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 1:29:36 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, I mean, I, I guess it's good that there's other milestones in there that, that you can't just, like, uh, merge everything together, because if you merge SpaceX and XAI.
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 1:25:17 John Coogan Massive news from SpaceX last night. 8 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 31:33 Jordi Hays But recent setbacks with SpaceX Starship vehicle, one of two lunar landers under contract with NASA, alongside Blue Origin's Mark II lander, indicate that it will still be several years until these newer technologies are ready to go. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 2:22:59 John Coogan Um, obviously, you know, SpaceX is the perfect, it feels like the perfect story to me where, you know, who was gonna pay for a moon landing in the sixties? 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 1:13 John Coogan Obviously, SpaceX has a lot of other business lines, but, ah, this one's very, very important too, and it's, ah, and we hope that they can get back on track. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 1:18 Jordi Hays The implications for Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, even the boring company, right?
- ▶ 16:54 Jordi Hays He said, the real question is if Tesla is down 14%, how could SpaceX and OpenAI be trading 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:03 Delian Asparouhov Um, it was based off of old, uh, space shuttle hardware, but it is basically the internal, um, you know, sort of NASA run competitor effectively to like a, you know, sort of Starship heavy, either launch rocket. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Jordi Hays SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Jordi Hays SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately. 3 times in the scene
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 3:02 Chris Dixon And so, for example, like SpaceX has a program where they move, you know, they'll sell a Starlink in, I think it's like some, south of like Brazil or something, and then they'll immediately, you know, use stablecoins for so-called treasury…
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 0:37 John Coogan There's a lot of stake at SpaceX.
- ▶ 19:40 Balaji Srinivasan And, and I'm like, you know, like, I think, uh, Elon is saying like, uh, Tesla or, you know, SpaceX, they turn impossible into late.
- ▶ 39:13 Chris Dixon And so, for example, like SpaceX has a program where they move, you know, they'll sell a Starlink in, I think it's like some south of like Brazil or something, and then they'll immediately, you know, use stablecoins for so-called treasury…
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day
- ▶ 8:09 Jason Carman It was on your show that Gary said the thing about like, we don't need you to build the next SpaceX.
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 21:44 Shyam Sankar In the same way that Elon Musk's aspiration for SpaceX has always been to get to Mars and to make us an interplanetary species.
Willem Van Lancker on Terrain’s Radical New Founder Program
- ▶ 8:14 Willem Van Lancker You know, these have been engineers and designers and companies like OpenAI and Databricks, SpaceX, Ramp, you know, like you name it.
Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN
- ▶ 0:15 Robin Langtry So we're trying to do a, a very SpaceX style test, fail, fix approach to fusion, try to be really capital efficient.
- ▶ 12:42 John Coogan Can you talk a little bit about lessons from the past two decades in, um, in rocketry, and specifically lessons learned from how Elon and SpaceX approached, ah, building rockets versus other players in the space, ah, and the decision to go…
- ▶ 15:16 Robin Langtry You, uh, you know, we love people from Blue Origin, SpaceX, Tesla, who've kind of worked in that kind of an environment that like go fast, try stuff, iterate, stuff like that.
What It Takes to Build a Mine | Ted Feldmann on TBPN
- ▶ 15:30 Ted Feldmann We, I think we need, need a cool brand for people to hear about us, both in kind of the, we have the billboard across from SpaceX, obviously want to pull, pull incredible talent from SpaceX, but also like there are very few companies in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:00 Ted Feldmann We are, uh, we're teaching, uh, SpaceXers how to drill and, uh, drillers how to, uh, participate in a high functional, high functioning engineering organization.
The Hidden Power of AI in Metal 3D Printing | Erik Palitsch on TBPN
- ▶ 0:20 Erik Palitsch My background was early employee at SpaceX, worked there for over 10 years.
- ▶ 1:16 Erik Palitsch Like we were doing things with Raptor that, you know, we were inventing, we were, we were, you know, innovating in the rocket space for the first time in decades, truly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:48 Erik Palitsch We're about a quarter mile from SpaceX.
- ▶ 5:10 Erik Palitsch I kept my, my head, my brain kept going back to, and, and by the way, I worked directly with Elon for my entire career at SpaceX.
- ▶ 9:26 Erik Palitsch I mean, you know, free form is, uh, really it's, it's in the three D printing space, you know, we're, we're like SpaceX, you know, the, the, the, the, the mindset of, um, of those organizations and talent of those organizations, you know,…
- ▶ 14:21 unnamed speaker You're probably more relaxed than you were when you were at SpaceX, but at the same time, I'm sure you get 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Erik Palitsch I think I was raised in the school of SpaceX, you know, in, you know, in, you know, early on, there were, there were 50 people, um, 60 people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Erik Palitsch Designing and architecting like Raptor and Starship.
- ▶ 28:02 Erik Palitsch From my time at SpaceX, I always liked solving these extremely complex interdisciplinary system level problems, you know, and these very, very, you know, how do we colonize Mars?
- ▶ 30:49 Erik Palitsch I came from space X, so everything starts at zero.
- ▶ 31:41 Erik Palitsch You know, I led certification of Falcon nine and Merlin, um, uh, for, for the air force and NASA.
- ▶ 33:06 Erik Palitsch I feel obviously like very fortunate, um, to have had the opportunity to work at SpaceX for so long and sit in the room and see how he makes decisions and, you know, and, and the good and the bad, you know, I mean, all of it, I, I just, I… 3 times in the scene
Is Venture Capital Broken? | Sam Lessin on TBPN
- ▶ 30:44 Sam Lessin I find the whole Mars thing and SpaceX so frustrating. 3 times in the scene
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 9:48 Delian Asparouhov Um, I'm gonna be, uh, moderating between Tim Hughes, who's the SVP of all, you know, sort of business basically at SpaceX.
Why the Moon Matters More Than Ever | John Gedmark on TBPN
Building Northwood and a ground station network for satellites | Bridget Mendler on TBPN April 23rd
- ▶ 3:35 Bridgit Mendler And so kind of gold standard for this is SpaceX, where they have hundreds of ground stations to, um, not just have global coverage, but to be able to serve 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:56 Jordi Hays What kind of companies do you think, ah, are potentially enabled by your technology and network that, ah, may not have been smart to start five years ago if you didn't have, kind of, the resources of, of SpaceX?
- ▶ 16:30 Jordi Hays SpaceX.
You Shouldn't IPO - Here's Why | Everett Randle on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 7:43 Everett Randle So SpaceX obviously is kind of the poster child of this, but then you saw Stripe obviously do that, that really large kind of like RSU catalyzed round, um, at like fifty-five billion dollars, I believe it was.
- ▶ 10:40 Everett Randle Um, and, uh, and, you know, SpaceX has been a private company for what? 3 times in the scene
Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 21:09 unnamed speaker He worked at SpaceX.
Is AI UNDERVALUED? | Scott Wu on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 1:39 unnamed speaker Pinterest and SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 1:18 Delian Asparouhov And so, you know, both SpaceX and Palantir
- ▶ 5:03 Delian Asparouhov Like if you look at the people that are closing the biggest use of defense contracts, you know, Tim Hughes at, you know, sort of SpaceX, uh, you know, Matt Graham, Trey Stevens, et cetera, that whole crew at, you know, uh, and roll, you…
- ▶ 14:47 Delian Asparouhov Yeah, I mean, I brought it up because I think it was like two weeks ago that we chatted about like the, you know, astronauts being stranded, and then, you know, sort of SpaceX going to, you know, bring them back down. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:01 Delian Asparouhov Like, it's really awesome to have somebody that he's got a phenomenal entrepreneur, a right shift for payments, you know, sort of mega company, but then also it's like putting his own capital and literally life on the line by like paying… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Delian Asparouhov Like, I mean, again, just look at like what SpaceX is doing with Starship and like, you know, stomping out a bunch of, you know, other, you know, sort of mice in there, the elephant, what Andrew is doing, stomping out a bunch of mice.
Connor Love (Lightspeed) on Everything You Need to Know About Defense Startups
- ▶ 7:58 Connor Love But, but where the like, and I made this like, you know, there are, there are sharks and there are mennows in this, you know, in your budget, you know, happening right now is the sharks, you know, the guys like Brian Hargis, you know, has…
- ▶ 20:15 Connor Love So if you can be unique enough, and, and part of this is like, yes, looking at what the large guys are doing, like Andrew and SpaceX and et cetera, um, you, you need to be nuanced enough initially with your product that, that you're,…
Christian Garrett (137 Ventures) on Investing and Markets
- ▶ 2:18 unnamed speaker oh yeah, I'm an early investor in SpaceX, but like maybe there's like a bunch of SPBs separating you and like the actual, like, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Christian Garrett You know, SpaceX has raised ten billion dollars in primary over its, you know, 23 years, uh, of being around as a company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 unnamed speaker Cause they've done an exceptional job, you know, with, with their relationship with SpaceX and, you know, we, we want that kind of partner as well.
- ▶ 15:38 Christian Garrett You, uh, you do see obviously a, a ton of, I mean, you know, SpaceX does a tender and they're 2 times in the scene
Shaun Maguire breaks down Wiz investment, building great teams, and the Everything App.
- ▶ 9:51 Shaun Maguire SpaceX in the early days, like anyone in the world that wanted to work on rockets, like there was only one place to go and they went to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 Shaun Maguire This is not what he's been saying, so I'm sorry, Casey, I'm making this more provocative than what you actually said, but he's basically said that NASA has been underestimating SpaceX, and that it's in NASA's interest to kind of understand… 5 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
- ▶ 2:22 Delian Asparouhov SpaceX was seen as a bunch of, you know, you know, cowboys who has that had no chance of actually being able to be trusted. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Delian Asparouhov Well, now that it's the Trump administration, I don't think that Trump will, you know, sort of limit them from the mics, but I think what's incredibly clear is SpaceX offered to bring the astronauts back sooner
- ▶ 5:18 unnamed speaker You could imagine that Boeing is finding it difficult to compete on, you know, getting the best talent when there's SpaceX and Varda and all these other players that are sort of competing for the, the best and brightest in the world.
- ▶ 16:45 Delian Asparouhov Yeah, I mean, I think if you look at the, you know, sort of SpaceX, the Anderals, the Vardas, the Hadrian, et cetera, on down, the per capita number of like IT security people you basically need on staff because you're just like ITAR… 2 times in the scene
Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
- ▶ 29:30 unnamed speaker And, you know, some of the best quests you could go on are like working for an Android or working for a SpaceX.
Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
- ▶ 14:18 Ashlee Vance So, but you know, the cup, the criminal thing is, is rocket lab because there's a little bit of a lack of attention on that because there's like space X and rocket lab and they're the only two have figured it out and they figured it out on…
Delian Asparouhov on Near Death Experiences, Deflecting Asteroids, and the Magic of Venture.
- ▶ 10:30 Delian Asparouhov Even our satellite and we know where SpaceX dropped us off and like where things are going. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Jordi Hays Talk to us about SpaceX last week. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:20 Delian Asparouhov And so from a commercial basis, it's like really hard to sign contracts with anyone, but SpaceX right now, because no one's showing any level of repeatability. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Delian Asparouhov There are plenty of SpaceX copycats even today. 4 times in the scene
Chrisman Frank on AI Tutors, the Path to Learning, and Struggles with the Modern School System.
- ▶ 1:14 Chrisman Frank I went down to visit the, uh, school at SpaceX that Elon had created, uh, for his own kids. 3 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian reflects on Reddit, the changing internet, and the future of Digg.
- ▶ 23:25 unnamed speaker How many, uh, how many successful, uh, SpaceX, you know, sort of trips to the moon you need to see before you're going to get on it yourself? 2 times in the scene
"Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission.
- ▶ 3:43 John Coogan Yeah, SpaceX, Elon companies, that's what we want to dive into today.
- ▶ 7:12 Shaun Maguire Um, and also we're not investors in Tesla, just given the timing and that it was public where, you know, major investors in space X invested in boring company, investors in X, investors in XDI.
- ▶ 16:37 Shaun Maguire Basically guaranteed SpaceX is driving this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:35 Jordi Hays Um, question for you, I think, uh, you know, it's easy to see why SpaceX is a multi-hundred billion dollar company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:13 Shaun Maguire I mean, look, I, it's not what people want to hear, but I think that if you don't have a very, very clear idea, don't, don't start a company just for the sake of starting a company, go join an, go join SpaceX or Joe, go join XAI or Tesla…
"Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- ▶ 10:25 Keith Rabois The thing about this is kind of like what SpaceX did, you know, in some ways the rockets was like the rockets were really good, but they were invented in the 19 sixties in the United States. 2 times in the scene
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