Berber Jin
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Not a lot of companies crossed the $1 trillion mark.
That's a great question.
First of all, there hasn't ever really been a company that looks like the way the new SpaceX will look like.
Elon Musk essentially merged an AI research company that builds what Elon calls a truth-seeking AI chatbot
with a space company that sends rockets into space and has satellites that build global internet connectivity.
So on the face of it, there isn't that much that ties the two companies together.
This is very much an Elon Musk thing, but he has a very loyal shareholder base that has a lot of faith in him.
He says he has famously never lost any of his investors any money, and he takes that pledge really seriously.
This was actually a really Elon blog post.
There are emojis in it and jokes that are very Musk-coded.
See, he talks about why it makes a lot of sense to put data centers in space.
He says, the only logical solution is to transport these resource intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space.
I mean, space is called space for a reason.
In space, there's a very big source of power, that is the sun, and you need rockets to launch satellites operating those data centers into space.
And if that is the case, SpaceX is the world's largest rocket launching company, and so therefore it stands to benefit a lot.
And it is fraught with a lot of engineering challenges.
Like I think if you talk to anyone, even the most optimistic investors and CEOs who are dreaming of this, they acknowledge that it'll take a few years.