Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the official mission statement of SpaceX is to establish a multi-planet civilization and to extend the light cone of consciousness outwards throughout the universe.
It's something along those lines.
It's also replete with...
These sort of embellished, sometimes AI-generated images of enormous football field-sized AI data centers orbiting the Earth and rockets taking off for other planets, etc.
So it really is a piece of science fiction in and of itself.
In fact, the phrase, we believe, I can't it, is used 254 times everywhere.
in the course of the documents.
So it's very interesting to think of it as a piece of sort of speculative fiction in and of itself.
It does.
I mean, this is one of the hardest things in a way to talk about with Musk because there's such a desire, I think, on the part of a lot of people who are critics or on the left, such as myself, to simply deflate his grand statements and say that he's never actually delivered on his promises.
But in fact, he has delivered quite substantially on some of his promises.
He mainstreamed the consumer electric vehicle.
If you had invested in Tesla 10 years ago, your stock would be up 1,800%.
He's brought the cost of putting mass into orbit down by 90% over the last two decades.
He's created a whole new sector of low Earth orbit internet satellites.
And it's enough that you have the world's retail investors, and in many cases, the world's institutional investors, meaning pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, oil funds, oil.
all lining up to get a piece of SpaceX, even though, and this is an important part of the story, he has rigged the governance structure of it in such a way that nobody can depose him from his leadership.
He's created a special class of shares of which he has 85%, and it's only through a majority vote with that class of shares that he can be removed as CEO or chairman of the board.
Yeah, I mean, there really is only one revenue generating part of SpaceX, which is Starlink.
And if you read the SpaceX prospectus, it talks about the existence of one million satellites in low Earth orbit for both satellites.
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