David Solomon
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So when the biggest, most important things happen in the world, we have a better chance of being asked to provide services.
And that's kind of what we do.
Did you send him a DM?
So with respect to the DM, it is, unfortunately, it's untrue that I pitched Elon via DM about the deal.
But what is true, and this is the way facts get confused, Elon, some point in the last year, stopped...
taking texts on his phone or emails and started telling people that he knew that if you wanted to get in touch with him, direct message him on X. And so, because I have a relationship where I reach out to Elon and we exchange messages about a whole variety of different things,
I stopped sending him texts on his phone and started direct messaging him when I wanted to, when I wanted to- This is how Joe communicates.
This is entirely what Tracy is- When I wanted to communicate, I started communicating.
So I actually, I went back actually and looked at the chain, you know, in my ex account over the last six months, just to make sure I wasn't wrong about this when I saw it in the press.
And I said to Tony, I don't think this is true.
And I never asked Elon in a text message about the IPO.
We focused on his team.
We focused on the work that we had to do.
And we're really proud and pleased to be leading this.
And we're going to do everything we can working with the other banks to get the best result that we can for SpaceX.
Well, I'm going to give you a conclusion first.
OK.
We can try to dig in a little bit to the details, which I know you guys love to do.
But I just start.
I don't think this is going to break capitalism.