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Berber Jin

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156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

And I mean, everyone was expecting the company to merge.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

They're kind of working through the rationale, right, and trying to buy into Elon's vision.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

But there's definitely more of a nervous and mixed reception amongst the SpaceX investor crowd.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

They control the rocket launch business.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

I mean, it's almost impossible to break into that market.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

That's why SpaceX is so valuable.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

And it's kind of the crown jewel of Elon's empire.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

The rationale for the acquisition, there isn't really like an immediate tangible benefit to SpaceX's bottom line, right?

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

The case you can make is that they could work together to figure out the technology needed to build data centers that are able to operate successfully in space, right?

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

They're able to work on the design together.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

SpaceX would have...

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

more of a sense of the research direction that XAI is going in, you know, how to design systems that kind of work very well with the models that XAI is training.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

So I guess that's the kind of the benefit that SpaceX would get in theory.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

I think it definitely complicates the plan to go public for two reasons.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

I mean, first, they have to actually integrate and unify the cultures, right?

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

So there's a lot of legwork to do there, and that takes time.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

And usually when a company goes public, they already have that stuff mostly sorted out.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

The second thing goes to this question of how are they going to sell this new business?

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

The way Wall Street works is people, I mean, it's all about narrative.

The Journal.
Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

The question is, are they buying the narrative that the company is selling?