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Its revenue will almost double again this year (2023) by looking at the number of launches[1]. Definitely the most exciting company Elon has (personal opinion)

• more_corn 3y ago
  I mean twit-er-x is exciting, just in a more train wreck sort of way.
  • oblio 3y ago
    I think we should nickname it (e)x-Twitter.
  • bilekas 3y ago
    Yeah.. it's a strange guilty pleasure to see all the changes i view as stupid, to perform as badly in the real world.
    • DoesntMatter22 3y ago
      Most of the changes seem to be great to me. Long form video. Longer posts. Revenue sharing. Great changes so far
      • Un1corn 3y ago
        I think most people focus on bringing back far-right people to the platform, making the application inaccessible to logged out users and the failed attempts at Twitter Premium or whatever it's being called.
        • xNeil 3y ago
          i remember i think back when jack dorsey stepped down and parag agrawal was slated to be the next ceo all of HN was doing nothing but talking about how the only viable path for twitter was to put the entire thing behind a subscription because there was too much garbage. now that elon is actually instating a paywall (that isn’t compulsory, and still lets you use it for free) all of HN seems to be thinking it’s the wrong decision. i’d understand if something substantially happened in the intervening time period to give you the impression the subscription model was NOT the way to go, but nothing of the sorts has actually happened at all. while it’s better than most sites, the groupthink on HN is insane. also - i might be wrong if dorsey stepping down was the time when everyone was saying this, but i do remember it very clearly, and i only joined in 2020.
          • HWR_14 3y ago
            > nothing of the sorts has actually happened at all. Twitter went from not-profitable to profitable-on-ads. The ad model was proven to work. That's what happened in the interim.
        • fourseventy 3y ago
          So far-right people shouldn't be allowed on the platform but far-left people are? Elon simply balanced the conversation.
          • bilekas 3y ago
            I really dislike this argument, it sounds so balanced but it’s disingenuous. Twitter has (had) rules. Nothing to do with political slant. It’s just there are extremes on the right that seem to cross those rules. Correlation is not causation.
        • colinsane 3y ago
          for me it’s the vocal Twitter users who say with a straight face that it’s the “town square” and who talk about “the global conversation” and just won’t accept that only a vast minority of their town or globe actually post on it or participate in the way they’re suggesting. the whole platform — users and owners — are just incredibly full of themselves in an _annoying_ way.
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    • m3kw9 3y ago
      There is some fantasy world going on with Elon haters, it’s comical. Twitter works fine, SpaceX works fine
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• pavon 3y ago
  Many of those planned commercial launches will likely slip into 2024. It is common for space companies to not bother updating deadlines that they obviously are not going to meet until they get past some high-risk milestone and are in a better position to give a more realistic deadline.
  • panick21_ 3y ago
    There are also launches moveing forward or show up out of knowwhere.
• losteric 3y ago
  Gwynne Shotwell deserves all the thanks, she's brilliant
  • tomp 3y ago
    I mean, not all the credit. She might be brilliant, but she's worked other space jobs before. So clearly whatever company Musk has created, has allowed her to actually showcase her brilliance. CEO sets the vision. Without vision, even perfect execution is pointless.
    • flaminHotSpeedo 3y ago
      "clearly" is doing so much heavy lifting for you it puts both starship and sls to shame... If you have evidence to support that takeaway I'd love to see it. I don't have evidence one way or the other, though I have seen unconfirmed scuttlebutt that SpaceX is successful _despite_ Musk, in no small part due to actively distracting and babysitting him to prevent him from meddling
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      • cubefox 3y ago
        That's complete nonsense. There is a lot of evidence that Musk makes all the important decisions (like switching Starship to steel) while Shotwell seems to handle mostly day-to-day business. Moreover, Shotwell has, as far as I know, not actually founded any successful companies, while Musk has.
        • notfish 3y ago
          Musk is chief engineer - he makes engineering decisions at SpaceX and has a reputation for mostly making good ones
          • martin8412 3y ago
• why_at 3y ago
  Interesting site, but it's not clear to me what they count as a failed launch. My guess is some of the Starship tests since I don't think there has been a failed Falcon 9 launch is a few years. Also, unrelated: This site is the worst case of hijacking the browser back button I've ever seen
• shaklee3 3y ago
  Revenue doesn't double by launching more of their own payloads
  • tuatoru 3y ago
    If it doubles Starlink customers and gets more high-value customers, perhaps it does.