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Asparouhov: Biden Admin Rejected Early SpaceX Return Due to Musk's Politics
“What's incredibly clear is SpaceX offered to bring the astronauts back sooner And because it was in the middle of the election cycle, and because Musk was campaigning for Trump, the Biden administration turned down that offer.”
Shotwell: SpaceX and xAI merger owns Earth's largest gigawatt-class compute cluster
“With the merger, the acquisition of XAI, we now, as a group, own the largest coherent gigawatt class compute on the planet, which will help us truth seek and understand the universe.”
Hays: Elon Musk's lunar mass driver keynote is an IPO pump
“But still, this seems like a, just kind of a blatant sci-fi pump going into the IPO.”
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
Hays: SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of planned IPO
“So, they're in discussions ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, and X social media platform, and the Grok AI chatbot under one roof.”
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.”
Asparouhov: NASA should reallocate SLS budget to commercial rocket companies
“The commercial industry has better, cheaper,
You know, more effective rockets than, you know, anything that NASA is building and has at this point, we should probably reallocate that budget to just those commercial companies or to other NASA priorities rather…”
NASA Originally Planned to Award Commercial Crew Exclusively to Boeing
“When commercial crew was originally getting started, the original plan by NASA was to only, you know, do it as a sole source of war, just a Boeing. SpaceX was seen as a bunch of, you know, cowboys who has that had no chance of actually being able to be trusted…”
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”
SpaceX Unit Sues Apple and Prototypes Smartphone-Like AI Device
“A unit of SpaceX is suing Apple for disadvantaging its AI app, and the company is now prototyping its own smartphone-like AI device.”
Baker: AI Token Factories Will Not Need AWS-Style Cloud Suites
“My thought is that being a token factory is more than enough for the next five to 10 years.”
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…”
Shotwell: SpaceX will achieve orbit and second-stage recovery with Starship this year
“And this year I believe we'll get to orbit with that vehicle, and we'll recover the first, the second stage.”
Apple Was the Driving Force Behind Amazon's Globalstar Acquisition
“Apple clearly agrees, because they are not only declining to work with SpaceX, I actually think they were the driving force in this global star deal.”
Coogan: NASA Safety Panel Considers Near-Term Starship Crewed Landing Unachievable
“A NASA safety panel separately raised questions about how quickly SpaceX's human lander, based on its Starship vehicle, would be ready. A landing operation of astronauts with the Starship lander Within the next few years appears daunting and to the panel proba…”
Kim: Elon Musk will pitch space-based GPU satellites for SpaceX IPO
“I think Elon's pitch with the SpaceX IPO, and we'll see it in the coming months, is the AI compute, it's gonna be so, there's gonna be so much demand over the next five, 10 years, that you're gonna have to use these SpaceX satellites that have GPUs in them. To…”
Elon Musk leverages SpaceX equity to recruit talent for xAI
“Elon has the advantage of being able to use SpaceX stock to recruit people.”
Bezos: Blue Origin will move heaven and earth to reach the Moon first
“If asked, we will step up, and we will move heaven and earth to get to the moon first.”
Bezos: The US needs two competing SpaceX-scale launch companies
“SpaceX doesn't have to lose for Blue to succeed. What the U.S. Needs is it needs two SpaceX's. It needs two launch companies competing vigorously against each other to try to give us the most capabilities as a country, commercially, civilly, from a defense per…”
Coogan: SpaceX is planning an IPO raising up to $50B at $1.5T valuation
“SpaceX is planning an IPO that could raise as much as fifty billion and value the company at 1.5 trillion.”
Coogan: SpaceX is hiring BofA, Goldman, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley for IPO
“SpaceX is set to hire Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley to lead its IPO.”
Coogan: Founders Fund's SpaceX bet may become greatest VC investment ever
“Well, we should read through some of the history about Founders Fund's investment in SpaceX, because it might be one of the greatest, it might be, it might become the greatest venture capital investment of all time.”
Hays: Founders Fund's SpaceX stake will reach around $150B
“Again, it's still, like, gonna be a hundred and fifty-ish billion dollar position.”
Coogan: SpaceX moved faster than Blue Origin by prioritizing modular components
“One of the reasons the Blue Origin moved a little bit slower than SpaceX is that they leaned a little bit harder on the exquisite system going really big, and Elon had this idea of, like, let's try and make a whole bunch of small things that we bundle together…”
SpaceX could eventually provide 20% to 30% of global mobile data
“I think SpaceX is going to do unbelievably well, and I am maximum bull on direct assault for SpaceX, but I think what happens, like, in the kind of most wild success scenario for SpaceX, SpaceX is providing, like, 20, 30% of the world's mobile data in a decade…”
Asparouhov: Starlink Revenue Will Pass NASA's Budget Within Two Years
“Starlink's total top line revenue is going to be passing the NASA budget in the next year or two.”
Randle: Top-tier scale startups can raise practically unlimited private capital
“And the asset class has grown so much that if you're an amazing company, Compounding your intrinsic value at 25, 30% a year at scale, you can raise practically unlimited capital.”
Asparouhov: Without SpaceX, the US would lack both ISS crew and cargo access
“If SpaceX does not exist right now, like the United States would neither have like Boeing able to take crew to the ISS, nor would it have Northrop Grumman able to take, you know, basically cargo to the ISS. And so it's like, You know without SpaceX, the astron…”
Asparouhov: Northrop dropped a spacecraft, shifting ISS cargo missions to SpaceX
“This past week They dropped it. And so NASA was like, look like, yes, this has been tested, et cetera, but like, we don't know what happened in the drop. We need to basically send this thing back and run it through a full testing campaign and make sure that it…”
Asparouhov: China Copied Falcon 9 Designs But Still Cannot Land Rockets
“If you look at the, you know, sort of Chinese rockets, they look a hell of a lot like the Falcon nines. And they're still not landing.”
SpaceX and Rocket Lab are the only launch companies succeeding, says Vance
“There's like space X and rocket lab and they're the only two have figured it out and they figured it out on a scale that like nobody else has even got close to yet.”
Asparouhov: China relies on mass manufacturing over reusable rocket technology
“On the Chinese side, they don't have anything that is anywhere close to landing, but they're clearly just willing to throw manufacturing and bodies at the problem where I think it's something like SpaceX has launched 27 times so far this year. China has basica…”
Maguire: Elon Musk takes antitrust compliance more seriously than anyone else
“Elon has probably the biggest target on his back from a like regulatory perspective of anyone. And there's no one I'm aware of who takes like antitrust and all that more seriously than him.”
Coogan: US probably wouldn't have a rocket company without Elon Musk
“If he hadn't worked on that, probably wouldn't have a rocket company in America.”
Coogan: SpaceX developed an AI handset prototype with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips
“SpaceX developed an early prototype of an AI Focused handset. The device is said to be slimmer than the iPhone. Runs proprietary operating system. Uses XAI technology built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset.”
Paul: Anti Fund accessed SpaceX and xAI rounds through Jared Birchall
“Going into SpaceX and XAI, working with Jared Burchill to get into some of those rounds and then, you know, you're liquid very quickly.”
Baker: Over 10,000 Employees Bought Shares During the SpaceX IPO
“I think another really underappreciated thing about the SpaceX IPO is that over 10,000 SpaceX employees bought on the IPO.”
Coogan: Point-to-point rocket travel probably easier to approve than hypersonic planes
“Why not hop on a rocket to get across the world in 30 minutes? Sounds pretty cool and probably oddly easier to approve than hypersonic planes since those have been stuck in regulatory approvals for, you know, years and decades and never really worked out.”
Coogan: Founders Fund and Valor to make $60B+ on SpaceX IPO
“Founders Fund and Valor are set to make more than sixty billion in gains on the SpaceX IPO. Sequoia, more than twenty billion.”
Coogan: A SpaceX IPO is coming around September or October 2026
“So, maybe September, maybe October, but, ah, it's coming.”
Coogan: Starlink accounts for 50% to 80% of SpaceX's total revenue
“Starlink is the main revenue driver accounting for about 50 to 80% of the total revenue.”
Coogan: xAI's single $20B round exceeds SpaceX's lifetime funding
“So SpaceX has done 31 funding rounds, a lot of those have been secondary transactions, but 31 funding rounds to raise twelve billion. XAI just goes out and raises 20 in one round.”
Coogan: SpaceX will achieve fully reusable Starship with rapid turnaround
“He's also predicted fully reusable Starship with rapid turnaround. It's a little too soon to tell he's behind some of the early dates, but you know, in general, that project seems like it's real. It's going to happen.”
Coogan: SpaceX leads competitor space companies by two orders of magnitude
“Well, he's the only candidate for everything in space because he has the leading space company by like, it's two orders of magnitude.”
3D printing enabled SpaceX's Raptor, history's highest-performing rocket engine
“Printing enabled Raptor, which I would argue is the mo one of the most amazing and high performance rocket engines ever in the history of humanity.”
SpaceX's Raptor engine brought the first real rocket innovation in decades
“We were doing things with Raptor that, you know, we were inventing, we were, you know, innovating in the rocket space for the first time in decades, truly. People think rockets are super complicated, but really the technology hasn't changed much in a long time…”