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Neil Freiman

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Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

But Elon Musk, of course, has this vision that goes beyond our feeble minds, and that is to combine

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

XAI, which he wants to be an AI competitor with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic and Microsoft and Google.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

He wants them to be as big as that.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

And combine that with SpaceX, and you get what is building the infrastructure for orbital data centers.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

He wants to put a million data centers into space by combining SpaceX and XAI.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

He looks at this from a vertical integration perspective and says, okay, this makes a lot of sense to have Grok, XAI, Starlink, SpaceX, Starship all combined into one conglomerate that is controlled by him because that is the ultimate vision.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

And it's also one of the reasons, probably the main reason why he needs to IPO this thing very fast because XAI is losing a lot of money, putting a million dollars

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

putting a million data centers into space.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

I don't know the actual price tag of that, but it's going to cost a ton of money, and going public gets you that funding that you need.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

God, I love rocket launches.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

It was so fun to watch.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

I mean, we were all at this place ready to sit down for dinner, for Seder.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

And then, you know, the lady was like, we all need to sit down, ring the bell.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

And then like 20 people gathered around the TV and we were just watching the rocket launch.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

And we're like, no, five more minutes until it goes up.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

And there was just, you could not hear a sound.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

Everyone was so glued to the TV to see this rocket launch.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

So

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

Looks like they're on their way to the moon to go around the moon, and they probably will reach it, if all things go well, by Monday, April 6th.

Morning Brew Daily
SpaceX Files for Blockbuster IPO & Nike Can’t Fix its Problems

Moving on, Nike is finding out that reviving its business is a little more challenging than saying, just do it.