John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

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Cheeky Pint · Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

Like that was you encouraging people against some resistance.

Can you tell us how you came to that whole concept steel switch?

Okay, but to play this back to you, what I'm hearing is that

Steel was a riskier, less proven path, other than the early US rockets, versus carbon fiber was like a worse but more proven out path.

And so you need to be the one to push for, hey, we're gonna do this riskier path and just figure it out.

And so you were fighting like a sort of conservatism in a sense.

One other starship question.

So I visited um Starbase, I think it was two years ago, um with Sam Teller, and that was awesome.

It was very cool to see in uh a whole bunch of ways.

One thing I noticed was that people really took pride in the simplicity of things.

Where, you know, everyone wants to tell you how Starship is just a big soda can and, you know, we're hiring welders and you know, if you can weld in any industrial project, you can weld here, but

Um there's a lot of pride in the simplicity.

And the assault is a very complicated rocket.

So that's that's what I'm getting at.

Are things simple or are they complex?

In in

you say about the

or something like that, y is is an easier problem than this.

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