David Pierce

So you've got a big customer in Apple already.

You have the potential of a big customer in the rest of Amazon.

And you're, you know, your founder as a rocket company.

I got to say, none of that adds up to that much for me.

I mean, it seems like new forms of connectivity are important to a lot of people as you think about the world globally.

Have you ever tried Starlink?

I had Starlink for a while in the woods when we lived upstate in the woods here in the pandemic.

And I wrote this story where I was like, look, I would have needed to put up like an 80-foot tower to have this thing clear trees.

And if you have one tree branch in the way, at that time, this was years and years ago, Starlink was like a little iffy.

And now it's, like, better because there's more satellites in the sky.

Thomas Ricker, our deputy editor in Europe, is a committed van lifer, and this dude loves his Starlink.

And every time he writes about Starlink being good, the audience screams at him.

And he's—this is my point about great products winning out—

He's like, there's no competition.

Yeah.

There's nothing that can do what Starlink does for me.

And there's a lot of people who feel that way.

I have a lot of family in rural Illinois.

My wife's family is all farmers.

And they're like, get me off of HughesNet.