Rob Armstrong

The carnival barker side of him is very unattractive character.

But the business builder is a very impressive character.

That's fair.

He built the first viable independent electric car company ever.

That car company might not be doing great right now, but it changed the market for electric cars in the world.

He built Starlink, which is a major part of the world's communications apparatus.

And he's built a real business shooting stuff into space.

These are really impressive things.

And I think...

The non-crazy bit is of paying up for this IPO is this is a guy who builds stuff successfully, right?

So it's not as if I am trying to sell this to you.

Then it would really be crazy.

This is a guy who's built some stuff.

So that would be my positive case.

Yes, let's do this.

I think this is the most interesting bit of the story.

Yeah.

On the side of the kind of Wall Street apparatus, the indexes and the exchanges are really bending over backward to make sure that this one works, this offering works.

The thing that kind of knocks me out of my chair is they're letting this company into the indexes sooner.

Right.