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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri provide a simplified breakdown of the SpaceX IPO, discussing its implications and key insights.

Get our Business Idea Database: https://clickhubspot.com/wjsl Episode 833: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) breakdown the biggest IPO of all time. — Show Notes: (0:00) what even is SpaceX (7:11) What even is a trillion dollars? (8:51) Launches explained (9:07) Starlink (14:07) Data centers in space (17:39) Starship (24:46) Grok (28:06) a wonderful business at a silly price? (34:16) the mission (37:51) SBF's $114B fumble (39:04) funny, weird, surprising nuggets from the IPO (42:35Who's getting rich this week? (51:13) The genius insight of Luke at Gigafund (55:46) Pessimists get to be right, optimists get to be right (59:12) Elon's comp package — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri

Topics covered

• SpaceX IPO
• business analysis
• investment insights
• trillion dollar valuation
• Elon Musk
• Starlink

Keywords

• SpaceX
• IPO
• business
• investment
• Elon Musk
• Starlink
• trillion dollars
• Gigafund

Sponsors

Hampton, Mercury

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpaceX, Starlink, Gigafund

Products: Hampton, Mercury

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