Peter Beck

So in its own right, it's a great acquisition, but also it really is our first step into Europe.

And we're not stopping at just becoming large in the United States.

We want to service the globe and the countries that we can work in.

So that's kind of the first step into Europe.

Well, I'm not going to provide financial advice here, that's for sure.

Darn.

but look I'm trying to build the biggest space company in the world and gee I would have hoped to have done it by now everything always takes too long right but you know you have my commitment that that's my goal and I'm just my shoulder is down and I'm running as hard as I can to do that and so is everybody in the company how long that takes is how long that takes but you can see we kind of consistently keep growing and scaling the company and everything just consistently moves up and to the right and

And there's, you know, hopefully people see the methodical path that we're trying to walk here.

It's like, as I mentioned right at the beginning of the call, there's like $20 billion opportunity in launch, a $30 billion opportunity in spacecraft, and a $350 whatever billion opportunity in applications and services.

And the faster you can get there with something that's really disruptive, then, you know, the bigger the space company you can actually build.

Yeah.

Yeah, look, I mean, it's fair to say if you want work-life balance, don't come here.

And if you look at our competitors, they don't have work-life balance either.

So if you think you can compete with your competitors and not work as hard, then that's going to be a bad surprise.

So we absolutely push hard.

And I would say the culture here is we have a number of really kind of non-negotiable elements.

And right at the top is we build beautiful things.

And I just absolutely believe that if you build a beautiful thing, that it generally works.

When you give someone the freedom to build a beautiful thing, they take so much pride in it and they look well past their work and other people's work.

And you can go and look at any rocket lab spacecraft, any rocket lab component, any rocket lab rocket,