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Nicolas Owens

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Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

And so the satellite business and the rocket launch business kind of reinforce each other in terms of them just marching down this cost curve.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

They're a decade ahead of anybody else and will continue to do so, assuming Starship continues to add.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

The bigger loading bay of Starship means that you can put more stuff in it, so your cost to launch a kilogram of stuff goes down.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

You're sort of just dividing by a bigger denominator, and that's amazing.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

The company gets a narrow moat rating from us because of the AI piece, which is, I would say, indeterminate at best in terms of what its moat would be, and they're investing very aggressively in that business.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

You're taking these returns on capital that are evident from the Starlink and Rockets business, and you're saying, I'm going to write a $60 billion check to go get Cursor.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

I'm going to do similar size of investments to build data centers in space.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

And while I think there could be moats in AI, we don't see evidence of them here.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

So, you know, Grok is not one of the leading models.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

I do think there's a pathway in this, let's say, moonshot scenario, and even in what we call the minimum viable product scenario where

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

They can extend some of that cost advantage into data centers in space.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

If they can, then that would be, let's say, moaty.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

But it's too soon to say, frankly.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

Yeah, and I think segueing to the stock price is appropriate because I think the, let's call it, packaging of this company as an AI business is a very rational way to tap into investor appetite for

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

Right.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

I've thought about it in terms of supply and demand.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

As you point out, small float, and then you have this additional...

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

Let's say the market is looking forward to sort of, let's call it structural demand from passive funds, ETFs, and others that track a handful of indexes.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

So our moonshot scenario, if you dial the probabilities to 100%, right now it would be $169 a share.

Prof G Markets
OpenAI’s Financials Leaked — The Losses Are Staggering

So what we which, you know, and there's there's hundreds of billions of dollars of potential revenue in there.