Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan · May 20, 2026
Elon crunching the cost to manufacture a rocket in a spreadsheet during a plane ride in 2002 and realizing SpaceX could do it at 1/50th the cost is the most productive use of a spreadsheet on a plane ride ever
Trung Phan@TrungTPhan· May 20, 2026SpaceX S-1 dropped and its centred on 3 business lines:
◻️ LAUNCH: 650 launches and 80% of global mass to orbit in 2025
◻️ CONNECTIVITY: 9,600 StarLink satellites, 10m subs and 75% of maneuverable space satellites
◻️ AI: 1GW of compute, 550m active users
Sales of $18.7B in
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The thinking tools of physics are incredibly powerful and can be applied to any field
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