Emmet Oliver

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420 appearances 10 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 12 Jun

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The Claire Byrne Show · The Space X IPO · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

A lot of them are based in Ireland, of course, for our nice Atlantic air that cools them down.

Can that be done in space?

Again, can it be done efficiently?

So there's massive amounts of questions here.

But he has done it before.

Tesla is an extraordinary company.

But equally, he has, you know, bad mistakes on his record too.

You know, X, formerly known as Twitter,

He's losing a pile of money.

It was bought for $44 billion, but it's really a financial basket case.

So he has had a lot of success, a lot of success, but equally his record is fairly mixed.

So it's whether you think you lean in either sense of that, whether he's got the Midas touch or there is a big problem here that will only come to really kind of be revealed in several decades.

Yes, is the short answer.

I mean, it is a very peculiar part of the story that this is a company that's planning to build a colony on Mars consisting of a million people living in a colony.

You might say, oh, well, this is just things Musk says in an interview, but it's actually in the prospectus of the company that this is one of its plans.

Now, to be fair, it's kind of very much at the far end of what they're hoping to do, but it is listed and included there.

So when it comes to who would be investing, you're absolutely right.

A lot of investment now is done on a passive basis.

And what that means is

people get put into shares that they don't select they don't have the old-fashioned model which is you know active investment where you can tell a money manager put me into this sector put me into that company there's a particular mandate they may have and you might say you know I don't want to be in that sector I don't want to be in that part of the market AI in particular a lot of people are nervous about it but however if your money is invested on what they call a passive basis it means it just gets put into an index

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