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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 it's launching the satellites into space.

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

So that's funding the satellites.

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

The satellites are for connectivity.

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

And then you've strapped on this big XAI business, which is a huge compute and now leasing business.

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

not dissimilar to some of the hyperscalers, actually.

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

Oh, sorry, the hyperscalers being Google, Meta, Azure, Microsoft's Azure, who have huge data centers and they're selling that compute to the general public and corporates.

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

So XAI is doing similar things.

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

And incidentally, in terms of how...

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

Deeply intertwined, these companies are.

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

Its biggest customer on the XAI side happens to be Anthropic, who's buying massive compute off XAI to train its Claude models so that they can sell more tokens to you and I.

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

Yeah, so I think you're referring to the sort of the money merry-go-round or vendor financing that's...

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

was quite prevalent in the dot-com boom.

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

So what that means is you're basically lending your customers money to buy your product.

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

So it's artificial demand, and that was one of the things that popped the bubble back then.

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

So there is a little bit of that going on at the moment.

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

The bulls would say that

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

the demand is so astronomical, so exponential that you need large companies to fund the compute that is required here.

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

And the ones that actually have all the money right now are the ones that are doing the best from AI.

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

So it kind of makes sense, but they are very interrelated and we should keep an eye on that.

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

But it's not just that, it's,