MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW GOOD OF AN INVESTOR GOOGLE IS
6% OF SPACEX
14% OF ANTHROPIC
75% OF WAYMO
$900M INTO SPACEX IN 2015 →
NOW WORTH $115B
$13B INTO ANTHROPIC → NOW WORTH $140B
WAYMO JUST RAISED $16B AT A $126B VALUATION → GOOGLE’S STAKE WORTH ~$95B.
THOSE THREE BETS ALONE ARE WORTH OVER $350B AND THEY HAVE 100’S MORE SMALLER ONES $GOOGL
The second you reach for the words “ban,” “stop,” or “eliminate” as your policy, you're on the wrong side of history.
Shape the technology toward the goal, don't try to outlaw the future.
Was cool to be able to celebrate the @SpaceX IPO with a few folks from the amazing @Starlink team. Ultimately SpaceX is about building cool shit with your friends, now that’s something that will keep you going …
Has anyone tried using the technology we have to build a genuinely trustworthy news source? X's Grok appears to be the only one working overtime.
The space is wide open and empty...
Starlink will deliver high-speed internet onboard @ELALUSA
Starlink is on contract to connect 40+ commercial airlines and counting around the world 🛰️✈️
The mission statement SpaceX adopted when it absorbed xAI in February reads: "scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars."
This is, depending on how you read it, either the most ridiculous thing a serious company has ever put on its mission page or the most honest. We think it’s the latter.
If you squint at the org chart, SpaceX is a launch provider with an internet subsidiary and a recently-acquired AI lab.
If you squint at the technology roadmap, it’s the only company on Earth assembling the full prerequisite stack for the post-scarcity transition.
If you squint at the mission statement, it’s a serious attempt by one of the most operationally capable founders of our time to push humanity through the bottleneck that ends with us either as an interplanetary species sharing the cosmos with intelligent machines we built, or as a footnote on one rocky planet that didn’t make the leap.
SpaceX & the Sentient Sun, by @mikemcg0 and @pmarca: https://t.co/0CkG3Dvyi6
Lmao. And there’s the plan. Right there. Laid bare in your face. Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat forever. Everyone owes conspiracy theorists an apology who have been screaming about this for years.