Hunter Ash(@ArtemisConsort):Total pre-IPO investment in Tesla (debt and equity) was something like $700 million. With an m, not a b. For SpaceX, it was ~$12 billion. Look at what those investments did to the world. You can see the results all around you, in every city in America, and in space. Over 9 million electric cars on the road. Breakthroughs in battery design. Internet access in every remote corner of the planet. Cost of launch dropped by more than an order of magnitude. What has her $26 billion done?

2026.06.28 18:36

Total pre-IPO investment in Tesla (debt and equity) was something like $700 million. With an m, not a b. For SpaceX, it was ~$12 billion. Look at what those investments did to the world. You can see the results all around you, in every city in America, and in space. Over 9 million electric cars on the road. Breakthroughs in battery design. Internet access in every remote corner of the planet. Cost of launch dropped by more than an order of magnitude. What has her $26 billion done?

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