Oswald Oschin
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The founding of the company, he put his money towards it, but it's been, he's, he's not running it as a charity.
Like, yes, he put his own bill, you know, money towards it for sure originally, but now we're all stuck with it, you know?
And I think we're all stuck subsidizing parts of it potentially.
Yeah.
I mean, it just changes the mythologizing point slightly, which is like, it's, it's like, yeah, they're, maybe they're mythologizing.
It's like, I mean, how many people would, would like take all of their own money essentially and like put it into a space company back when there were no space, like private, the private space industry didn't even really exist.
And like,
I mean, go up against all the primes.
But if you want to talk about mythologizing, right?
Like that space stuff was what a lot of people used in the 2010s to say, like, look at this forward thinking futurist billionaire.
I'm not saying that all of space, by the way, was motivated by that.
But I think he's leveraged the company throughout the years to kind of push this idea of himself, you know, whether intentionally or not.
And now, like, the whole company is this giant conglomerate of AI and space and internet and, like, that, I mean, I see it financially.
Like, sure, it makes, it hypes it up.
It makes it more appealing to some people.
But isn't that just completely incoherent?
I don't know, Reed, do you have, like, a deeper explanation of this huge role?
No, I think it's...
No, I think it's coherent.
I don't know, maybe I'm crazy.