We are on the verge of a civilizational change. Yet outside of books, there is an intense philosophical void. Little thread.

This fable that companies & founders are interchangeable needs to stop. Employees don't pioneer reusable rockets that land by being caught with giant mechanical arms on their own. There is a reason SpaceX risked everything & did it, and not NASA, nor any other government agency or any other company in the world. The difference is the entrepreneur, his obsessions, his original thinking, his chosen angle of attack, the way he picks his talents, assembles the teams, allocates capital, structures the work, corrects mistakes, all in an insanely risky attempt to produce a desired outcome. It's all downstream of the entrepreneur's initial wish & relentless drive to manifest something new or different into the world. This is what makes the DNA of a company. The success is a team effort, but the sheer willpower required to manifest a dream into the world is from the entrepreneur. That's why Pixar is not Dreamworks, why Apple is not Microsoft, why OpenAI is not Anthropic. Different founders, philosophies, priorities, aesthetics, and outputs. And that's why SpaceX is completely unique. And why it has unlocked an entirely new branch of humanity's tech tree, one with the potential to grow the entire planet's economy by orders of magnitude.

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward. I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress. When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment. Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks. They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around. Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits? The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

New tech tree unlocked.

Last look before animating.

"You are sheltering a Mythos-level model in your server room, are you not?"

It's terrifying to share democracy with minds so ignorant, so confident, so naive, so uncurious & uninterested in understanding the mechanics of value creation behind 99% of human progress. These people vote, and they drag civilisation down.

Gwynne is such a boss.

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

If Dario had invented the iPhone he would have spent the whole keynote talking about how it might blow up in your pocket

this door is closed to us but francofuturism would have been glorious

Wonderful. A triumph of value creation. Those seething at this are objectively wrong.

We hear it as consumption. But it's almost all for allocation. This is a huge issue we need to get past. Name anyone you would rather see allocate 1T . Well done.

How it feels coordinating 12 agents at 4am.

I remember perfectly how Ariane called SpaceX “a dream”. Well turns out the future is built by dreamers. They might look foolish at first, but if they succeed, they make history and you will look foolish forever for mocking them. So sad we stopped dreaming in Europe.

I’m gonna tell my kids this was the worlds first trillionaire

> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO   Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.   Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.