Something Strange Happens When You Follow Musk's Math: Why Compounding Bets Rewrite Wealth

Then, there is SpaceX which has reduced the cost of getting a kilogram to orbit from roughly $65,000 to about $2,700. Their community has shipped over 100 real AI products with people building models generating three to $4,000 in actual revenue. Now, there is Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet division which has over 10,000 satellites in orbit serving roughly 150 countries. The combined valuation of Tesla and the SpaceX XCI merged entity is somewhere north of $2.5 trillion dollars. Every few generations, one person reshapes the world so completely that nothing after them looks the same. Edison did it with electricity, the Wright brothers did it with flight, Einstein with our understanding of the universe itself, Steve Jobs did it with e computer in the pocket, the founding fathers of the United States, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Da Vinci. Overall, this points to specialized systems and vertically integrated players shaping what comes next far more than surface narratives suggest.

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