Q That's sort of helpful, right? It's like, it's actually great that the, uh, uh, uh, you know, attention is going there, uh, and, and there's plenty of opportunity and sort of low earth orbit for the rest of us.
A Yeah. So I think that's a great point. Um, Look, I think, I think SpaceX is deeply incentivized to have a giant ecosystem of lots of great independent companies in space, and I think especially in LEO. And yeah, you're right. I mean, I think the focus is going to be Mars in addition to Starlink, which is already, you know, operating and scaling. And on Mars, I'll just say, I was I mean, I've always thought just from an intellectual perspective, it's the coolest thing ever to build a city on Mars. But like when I wrote my initial SpaceX investment memo, you know, it was like, yeah, I don't really understand Mars from a business perspective, but, but like, I think this is going to be such a great company. Yeah. Like irrespective of it, that it's fine. Like it's a side quest from a business perspective. I am now at the point where I actually, I really believe that Mars is going to Be like one of the biggest profit generating endeavors in history, and not necessarily, not like from the direct Like building a city on Mars, but from all the indirect things, and I'm sure you guys remember all the myths about, or, you know, all the stories about NASA in the sixties and seventies, all the spin-off technology, microwaves, materials, and all these different things. Um, I think the spin-off technologies from having a clear goal of building a self-sustaining city on Mars, which will have ab…
AI assessment note: “SpaceX is deeply incentivized to have a giant ecosystem of lots of great independent companies”