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The reported merger talks between SpaceX and xAI should not come as a huge surprise. If you believe AI is the future; and that compute is the major problem to solve; and orbital data centers are feasible—then the combined company would be a vertically integrated AI colossus.

YC Demo Day median dilution for small seed is 11% (top 25% is 7%), not 18% for non-YC YC Demo Day median dilution for big seed is 13%, not 21% to 23% for non-YC You do it all faster: YC funds you get pre-seed and in 4 months you have your seed, and you're off to the races, no BS, plus you get the network, the media, the community, and 1:1 partner support for the life of the co. YC pays for itself and then some. There's nothing like it for founders. (There's nothing like it for investors too, median MOIC is 5x for perennial investors at Demo Day, bottom quartile is 3.3x)

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Musk: SpaceX’s Starlink 'has achieved breakeven cash flow' tcrn.ch/3QfehIk via @techcrunch

Excited to announce that @SpaceX @Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow! Excellent work by a great team. Starlink is also now a majority of all active satellites and will have launched a a majority of all satellites cumulatively from Earth by next year.

Tesla Co-Founder’s 100x Battery Company Has HUGE PLANS youtu.be/RRMRz2WDr9w?si… via @YouTube @RedwoodMat

The Biggest Company in the World a16z.com/the-biggest-co… @vijaypande

Redwood Materials raises $700M to expand its battery recycling operation tcrn.ch/3j0DB4f via @techcrunch

What a time to be alive and witness rockets autonomously landing. Two almost back to back. @elonmusk

Count down youtube.com/live/_YAlOGZM3…

SpaceX raising $750 million at a $137 billion valuation, investors include Andreessen-Horowitz cnb.cx/3WFr6hb

A Golden Goose www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytime…

Dare to make your startup Legendary by @floodgatefund austinstartups.com/dare-to-make-y…

Microsoft in talks to invest $10 bln in ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, Semafor reports reuters.com/technology/mic…

I just subscribed to Starting Greatness Newsletter greatness.substack.com/?utm_medium=we… @m2jr

Kepler Communications Announces Testing of ÆTHER™ Network with Spire Global, Inc. finance.yahoo.com/news/kepler-co…

aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups… @blackbuck