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SpaceX, AI, Markets

Sean Hathaway Episode 109

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Lighter Note

Golf Data with Claude

Markets


Markets are raging!!

  • VGT, QQQ and VOO  60%, 43% and 30%
  • IGV up 36% since April 10
  • Micron. OMG: 10x in last year. WOW.  10T club

Investing in CEOs: Tesla, Nvidia, Palantir. 

529 and 401(k) and Mega Backdoor Roth

SpaceX 

Tesla executive on the # of clicks required to buy a car. Amazing!! 


Blue Origin 

  • Blow up.
  • Turns out Rockets are Hard to build. 

SpaceX - Memo. 

Plain English Competitive Advantages

  1. Elon Musk. Talent density. The best engineers in the world want to work at SpaceX. Hard Stop.
  2. Manufacturing: Hardware and Software
  • Similar to Tesla. 
  • They own the supply chain, the manufacturing and the software. Perfect integration. Long head-start! 80% of launches and maybe the only one profitable. 
  1. Tesla partnership:
    1. Real-world AI. Chip manufacturing. 
    2. Same VP of Materials Engineering (example). 
  2. Headstart: 
    1. Not generally a great “moat”, but in this case they are so far ahead. Could be decade.  Who else can build a raptor? 
    2. Reusable rockets. Blue Origin just accomplished this feat last year.