Comment by bgnn
5 hours ago
The real reason is, Elon has SpaceX and xAI. He can create an illusion of synergy and orders of magnitude advancements to boost the market cap and pocket all the money. He realized long time ago you don't need to deliver to play the market cap game, in fact it's better if you are selling a story far in the future rather than a something you can deliver now.
both can be true, he can excel at 'narrative' and also deliver me my Tesla and my starlink, it's not either or
Ok, he delivered your Tesla and your Starlink, but so far he has hasn't delivered your Robotaxi, your Optimus, your lunar lander, your space datacenter etc. And the list keeps getting longer instead of shorter...
You don't have to win them all.
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exactly. This smells like a way to boost the SpaceX IPO to meme-stock premiums
I mean, personally I'd probably have invested in SpaceX but it's a hard no with xAI attached.
I'm probably an outlier though.
I don't understand the claim. SpaceX is literally delivering? And I don't think there is any delusion about that being optional.
SpaceX is delivering despite Elmo's involvement.
The story is that they have a person (or people?) who are REALLY good at managing him and shoving him through the SpaceX offices so that he things he's contributing and out the back door before he has time to fuck anything up.
source: trust me bro
Yeah, delivering using Falcon 9.
The Starship stack? Not so much. It's plagued, and will continue to be plagued, by endless problems. BO will beat them with NG.
source: trust me bro
The wild claim is that they will deliver data centres in space
haters gonna hate
What'd be the point of inflating market caps like this when it's obvious they'll crash the moment the owner tries to liquidate any of it before the promises are kept?
I think you can get loans in the stock. That’s how “most people” live(and die)