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Lessin: SpaceX's Mars narrative is disingenuous and fundamentally nonsensical
“The Mars narrative is so frustrating because it's so disingenuous on one hand, right? Like, it's just, like, the predictions are out of control. Like, it doesn't make any sense from, like, a fundamentals perspective.”
Sam Lessin Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 30:56 Is Venture Capital Broken? | Sam Lessin on TBPN
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Maguire: Mars colonization spinoffs will be history's most profitable endeavor
“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”
Shaun Maguire Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 26:00 "Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission.
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Baker: SpaceX Could Become the British East India Company of Space
“If SpaceX puts a city on, on the moon and then Mars, and enables, you know, becomes the British East City Company, the solar system, I think this will, those, there's a lot of hard engineering that needs to happen to go into all that. This will probably be the…”
Gavin Baker Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 28:59 Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
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Coogan: SpaceX has researched Mars solar array deployment for over a decade
“And I've talked to SpaceX folks who have been working on on putting solar panels out on Mars... They've been thinking about this for, At least over a decade that I know of.”
John Coogan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 21:26 Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
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