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Aidan Donnelly

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475 total appearances

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And I think they'll be the big winners.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

I was in the States last week and I met a couple of companies and one CEO put it very well to me.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

He says, look, when you're talking about AI and all the companies that are making tokens and selling you tokens, he said, there's a finite price you can charge for a token.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So in a way, their per unit is capped.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

He says, but if a company takes that token

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

and tries to deploy its power in their business, the upside potential for that company is actually infinite because, you know, the better they use the token, the more efficiently they use the token, the upside could be infinity, right?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So the question is, are you better off investing in the companies that deploy the technology or the ones that develop it?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

You can argue that there's more upside in the ones that deploy it.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

In terms of AI or in terms of SpaceX?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

In terms of AI.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Look, I think you need to be cognizant of the valuation.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

You need to be cognizant of avoiding stuff where there's an awful lot of froth after coming in and things like that.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And I think you need to look at it and go, you know what?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

I have no problem with a company spending a lot of money on to generate internal growth in the business.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

The question is, is it going to return growth?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Is it going to give me a return?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

What's it going to be like?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Right.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And I think that's the key.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Right.