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NEWS: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is now worth $1.3 billion.
She joined SpaceX in 2002 as its 11th employee. Today she runs the company's day to day operations as President and COO.
Forbes just placed her on its 2026 list of America's Richest Self-Made Women.
Employee number 11 to billionaire.
Antonio Gracias on @SpaceX IPO: he's not selling.
"It's one of the most consequential companies in human history."
"Think of it as owning the British East India Company as you colonize the solar system and beyond."
"We have 20,000 people here. They are some of the best engineers in the world. We're building the entire stack from energy to compute to launch to orbital compute."
"It's really building the future."
"I plan on personally holding my stake as long as I can."
His firm, Valor Equity Partners, holds 7% of SpaceX, the second-largest stake behind Elon Musk himself.
With SPCX currently at $174, that's ~$160+ billion.
Gwynne Shotwell just gave CNBC the clearest explanation of what SpaceX's AI strategy actually is and most investors are still processing it as a rocket company (Save this).
The first thing she clarifies is the question everyone gets wrong.
When CNBC asked whether orbital compute makes Earth-based data centers obsolete, Shotwell said no, you will need both.
But @Gwynne_Shotwell was direct about where the growth goes, compute expansion in space will far outpace compute expansion on Earth over time, because the physical constraints that limit data center growth on Earth land, power, cooling, permitting, simply do not exist in orbit.
Radiative cooling in space is free, solar energy in orbit is constant and abundant.
The reason every hyperscaler is fighting over land and power rights for data centers today is because Earth is a constrained environment and space is not.
The Anthropic deal is the part that reveals SpaceX's actual posture in the compute market.
Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, but the contract includes a six-month exit clause and Shotwell explained exactly why that clause is there.
SpaceX will never sell compute it actually needs.
SpaceX is building compute for itself first, selling the overflow to companies like Anthropic second and reserving the right to pull that compute back the moment internal demand requires it.
The Cursor situation adds another layer entirely.
Most investors are treating it as a done deal, but Shotwell's framing is more interesting than the acquisition itself.
She describes it as a model company with excellent training data meeting a company with enormous compute and says they are currently looking at each other's models, learning from each other, and collaborating closely before any final decision is made.
The vertical integration picture that emerges from all of this is unlike anything else trading in the public markets today.
SpaceX is building its own natural gas pipelines, mining its own propellant, constructing its own launch infrastructure, building its own chips, deploying its own satellites, operating its own data centers on Earth and in orbit, running its own AI models and selectively selling overflow capacity to the most sophisticated AI companies in the world.
Bullish on SpaceX
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NFA, but if you must hold only 3 stocks for the next 5 years, here's the list:
1. $NVDA, central to AI infrastructure as every major player aims for AGI.
2. $TSLA, the only true AI application with FSD interacting with the physical world, moving towards AI robotics with unlimited TAM.
3. $BTC ETF, the internet and AI/machines' currency, poised to replace gold as a reserve, worldwide adoption imminent
If you need to diversify slightly, make these three 90% of your portfolio, with 10% in something like $PLTR.
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