Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

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This Week in Startups · The project SpaceX's first employee raised $500M for · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

So on the subject of of data centers in space, perhaps on the moon, perhaps in orbit, you know, pick your poison. voice-verified

I was talking to Philip from uh StarCloud, you know, before this became a more common point. voice-verified

And he said something very interesting to me. voice-verified

He said, you know, our company, if you want to back it, it's a bet that we're gonna see launch costs decline massively. voice-verified

Otherwise, it just doesn't make economic sense to take this much stuff. voice-verified

Up into orbit with our current um set of rockets. voice-verified

And this was before Starship's you know most recent successful launch and before New Glenn and so forth. voice-verified

Uh how much of your company's success hinges on the same point? voice-verified

Are you dependent on heav new heavy launch vehicles reaching a frequency of launch that we're still hoping for? voice-verified

Or does the company work even with the kind of Falcon 9 generation of of launch vehicles? voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

And now one thing I saw you guys are working on is engines for uh landing vehicles. voice-verified

Uh you mentioned that you were working with another company on a on a lander from Mars. voice-verified

What what's the benefit of of vertically doing that yourself versus working with partners? voice-verified

I know that SpaceX, where you used to work, um, is huge on vertical integration. voice-verified

And so I'm curious how much of that DNA you're kind of bringing with you into your new company. voice-verified

No, nor do you want the price that they're gonna charge you for that part price, voice-verified

Well, well on this subject, um, a data point that caught my eye. voice-verified

I forget this was in uh Ars Technica or or Space News, but um I think it was your president said that you guys don't need new uh manufacturing footprint here in the States because you have enough space to do all the work that you're doing, which I think is is pretty cool. voice-verified

But I'm curious about the the personnel side of this. voice-verified

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