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Rob Armstrong

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So it's a capital-intensive business, is what you're saying.

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But just for the record, $11.4 billion in revenue.

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2025 up almost 50 percent from the year what is that the starlink bit starlink bit income from operations 4.4 billion so as of right now it looks like a darn nice little business i don't know that i'm gonna pay for uh 1.3 one and three quarters trillion us dollars for it but moving on isn't there a third business in here somewhere yes well the third bit is the ai bit that's grok

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It is a huge pile of burning cash.

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So that is $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025.

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A loss of $6.4 billion.

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So the first amazing fact that we need to flag here is not the dinosaurs.

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It's the fact that people are lining up to pay $1.75 trillion, which would make this, I don't know, one of the 10 biggest stocks on Wall Street, right?

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Yes.

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Number seven or something like that.

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For a seriously loss-making business.

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To scale that, world GDP is about $125 trillion.

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So the addressable market is a fifth of GDP, right?

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John, Katie, let's ask a simple question.

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Is it mad to pay one and three quarters trillion dollars for this loss making business?

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Is it just is that just insane on its face, John?

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Yes.

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Before I choke on the cynicism of you two Brits.

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I would like to say that it is important to separate the carnival barker, Elon Musk, and the business builder, Elon Musk.

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And I agree with you.