Berber Jin
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And I mean, everyone was expecting the company to merge.
They're kind of working through the rationale, right, and trying to buy into Elon's vision.
But there's definitely more of a nervous and mixed reception amongst the SpaceX investor crowd.
They control the rocket launch business.
I mean, it's almost impossible to break into that market.
That's why SpaceX is so valuable.
And it's kind of the crown jewel of Elon's empire.
The rationale for the acquisition, there isn't really like an immediate tangible benefit to SpaceX's bottom line, right?
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?
They're able to work on the design together.
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.
So I guess that's the kind of the benefit that SpaceX would get in theory.
I think it definitely complicates the plan to go public for two reasons.
I mean, first, they have to actually integrate and unify the cultures, right?
So there's a lot of legwork to do there, and that takes time.
And usually when a company goes public, they already have that stuff mostly sorted out.
The second thing goes to this question of how are they going to sell this new business?
The way Wall Street works is people, I mean, it's all about narrative.
The question is, are they buying the narrative that the company is selling?