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> roughly half of the IPO price they were seeking That's already very high. Their profitable businesses are (1) Starlink and (2) Launching satellites. Starlink
by petilon 4mo ago
> roughly half of the IPO price they were seeking
That's already very high. Their profitable businesses are (1) Starlink and (2) Launching satellites. Starlink is growing revenue at maybe 50%, and revenue for launching satellites is growing maybe 10% annually.
But Goldman Sachs, which is leading the IPO process is telling investors that it expected SpaceX’s total revenue to reach $474 billion in 2030, up from $18.7 billion last year. That's 25x growth of revenue in just 4 years.
- laughing_man 4mo agoI have read the Google deal makes xAI profitable. In the short term, anyway.
- petilon 4mo agoxAI failed to produce a frontier model. They got involved into nudifying and other questionable activities as well. People started leaving in droves: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/xai-musk-addresses-wave-departures-xai-founder-rcna258651 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/xai-musk-addresses-wa... xAI is a failed company, as is X. Their merger into SpaceX is basically a scam. Elon Musk justified this by saying he is going to send xAI servers into space using SpaceX. This is an unproven idea, not ready for investing.
- laughing_man 4mo agoWhat I was trying to point out is xAI has a lot of data center capacity and is making bank renting it to other companies.
- petilon 4mo agoSure, but renting out data center capacity is not that lucrative. You get 15% markup that's all.
- laughing_man 4mo ago15% of a billion dollars is a lot of money.
- petilon 4mo agoIt is low-margin business, does not explain their 1.8T valuation.
- laughing_man 4mo agoThat may be true, but it's the farthest thing from a "failed company", even if you assume Grok never gains a market foothold. I don't know why you would assume that, though.