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Aidan Donnelly

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475 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

So that's kind of the backdrop that's ultimately in operation.

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

Yeah, it kind of grows in quite a bit.

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

But the core part of the business remains Starlink, the satellite communications business, right?

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

That's the one that you could argue is... That's the bit generating cash.

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

generating cash and it's generating decent sales, right?

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

So that is the core of the business.

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

And, you know, if you are looking at that in and of itself, you look at it in a different way in terms, from an investment perspective, right?

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

And it certainly wouldn't be carrying the valuation that the overall company is.

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

Then you've got the AI bit that's in there with Grok and Twitter and other bits of business.

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

And then the final bit, too, is they're now potentially rolling out AI and data centre operations that they are spending a novel lot of money on research and development on it.

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

The other thing, too, is ultimately, you know, the space exploration bit, which is the rocket launches.

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

They probably now have control over 80 or 90% of the rocks that are going to be launched over the next five,

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

few years.

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

Put anything in space.

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

So put anything in space, you know.

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

So, you know, they need that capacity.

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

And again, you know, from what I've seen, you're probably looking at a business that's, you know, washing it.

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

It's washing its face in terms of profitability, right?

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

The big drag on profitability is the R&D and the AI stuff that's in there.

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

And whether they will or they won't, it's up for debate.