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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?

And it's the same debate that's been had in all of these companies.

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

You're spending all this money.

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

Are you going to get a return out of it eventually?

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

And what will that return be?

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

And when will it come?

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

And that's the decision people ultimately have to make on it.

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

And I think...

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

The hype around it and, you know, the diehard Elon Musk disciples will tell you that it's fabulous and all those things.

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

And, you know, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

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

But, you know, when it comes to sitting in the seat I sit in, I have a framework and a process that I have to operate under in terms of judging any investment.

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

And that's what you have to do, you know.

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

And I would suggest to people, you know, it's not dissimilar if you're a retail investor or an institutional investor.

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

You know, you've got to set the hype aside and go,

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

what is this?

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

What are the chances that, like, if you look at the company overall right now, it's probably generating somewhere in the region of about $19 billion of revenue, right?

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

It's losing $5 billion.

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

It lost $5 billion of revenue last year, right?

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 look at it on another measure, we look at EBITDA, which is kind of cash flow.

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

It is cash flow positive, but it's Starlink that is generating all of that cash.

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

But the problem is all the cash,