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Sam Dickie

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267 total appearances

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The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

So SpaceX, let's not forget, despite the fact it doesn't make any profit, it has a really inherently profitable business buried within it, which is Starlink, which makes 65% profit margins.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

Anthropic, its margins are increasing as it drives its compute efficiency and it sort of gets those economies of scale as it's ramping its revenue at

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

you know, unprecedented rates.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

And OpenAI's margins actually seem to be going backwards, but that's partly because they're front-loading a huge amount of compute into their business to secure that compute for the future, which they see as a comparative advantage to the other two.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

PEs are out.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

Margin trajectory is important.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

But then it's things like long-term discounted cash flow valuations where a lot of the future value is in the future.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

And finally, it's something as simple as a price-to-revenue multiple.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

And to give you some context there, SpaceX is going to come on somewhere between 60 and 90 times revenue.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

And the other two are sort of 30 to 50 times revenue.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

And for context, Google and Meta are two phenomenal companies which are growing slower and

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

are on sort of five to eight times revenue.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

So pretty ritzy multiples.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

That's right.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

I mean, we've got our own discounted cash flow model for SpaceX, and you really need to run it out 20 or 30 years before you start to see some serious profitability hitting the bottom line.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

So there's a lot of future value baked into these companies today.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

I mean, if SpaceX listed a premium $2 trillion for zero profit, you can understand that there's a lot of faith in the future.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

That's right.

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

I mean, it almost seems like a throwaway comment, doesn't it?

The Prosperity Project
SpaceX just went public. Opportunity or bubble?

I mean, I was going to say that OpenAI and Anthropic are rumoured to be a trillion each, which seems like chicken feed can be to SpaceX.