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#81
"Mr. Musk or his affiliates may become aware, from time to time, of certain business opportunities ... and may direct such opportunities to other businesses in which they have invested."

"Under our charter, Mr. Musk and his affiliates are not restricted from owning assets or engaging in businesses that compete directly or indirectly with us"

Pg. 56

I think this part is interesting considering Tesla shareholders seem to have lost out on developing (x)AI (AGI?) internally.

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#82

"in May 2026, we entered into Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC (“Anthropic”), an AI research and development public benefit corporation, with respect to access to compute capacity across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II. Pursuant to these agreements, the customer has agreed to pay us $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at a reduced fee" Anthropic is paying them 1.2…

Wow! 3 years is an eternity at this level.

Anthropic can cancel the deal on short notice: “The agreements may be terminated by either party upon 90 days’ notice.”

Re: SpaceX S-1

#83
post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! 3 years is an eternity at this level.

Anthropic can cancel the deal on short notice: “The agreements may be terminated by either party upon 90 days’ notice.”

Sure, either side could cancel. But Anthropic needs compute, and they found it in SpaceXAI. Why would they cancel the deal unless they don't need more compute or if they could get compute for less elsewhere (but where would that be realistically)?

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#84
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Crazy this company will IPO for >1B with such bad financials! That said, Starlink seems to be a real cash machine, not as good as ads but enough to support AI bets. 2025: - Revenue: $18.7B, up from $14.0B in 2024 - Operating loss: -$2.6B - Net loss: -$4.9B - Adjusted EBITDA: $6.6B - Operating cash flow: $6.8B - Capex: $20.7B Segment breakdown: - Starlink / Connectivity: $11.4B revenue, $4.4B operating income, $7.2B a…

If they cleaved off xAI and let it die, they'd be in much better shape!

xAI is by far their most profitable segment, receiving 1.25B a month from Anthropic.

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#85
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone laughed at Allbirds getting into the business of selling compute.

The reason people laugh at Allbirds is that they don't have the money or expertise to build a competitive offering.

They certainly have some big shoes to fill. But I'm glad they didn't die with their boots on, and got their foot in the door at this new opportunity. It certainly didn't help that they were running on a shoestring budget.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are. This is from their "Chief Compute Officer". https://x.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375

Right. This compute still being powered by an illegal amount of gas turbines in a residential neighborhood? Claude is eating so much compute, the threat of that power being tuned down by lawsuit (rightfully) is worth the risk to Anthropic in the short-term. Instead of declaring "bubble", I'm just going to say that's so crazy.

Or SpaceX is absorbing the risk should that power be turned off... still morally shitty but not obviously economically so.

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#87

"in May 2026, we entered into Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC (“Anthropic”), an AI research and development public benefit corporation, with respect to access to compute capacity across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II. Pursuant to these agreements, the customer has agreed to pay us $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at a reduced fee" Anthropic is paying them 1.2…

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#88
Elon Musk owns 12.3% of Class A shares and 93.6% of Class B shares. Class B shares have 10x the voting power of class A shares. Overall Elon controls 85.1% of the voting power in the company. If Elon sells any of his Class B shares, they automatically convert into Class A shares.

Retail and institutional investors will have practically no say in the direction of the SpaceX.

> Each share of Class A common stock will entitle its holder to one vote per share. Each share of Class B common stock will entitle its holder to 10 votes per share. Each share of Class B common stock will convert automatically into one share of Class A common stock upon a Transfer.

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#89
Who is gonna buy at the IPO and why or why not? (Assumes you read the S1).

I did. I’m not buying. lol I won’t get an allocation but I also want to see where this shakes out. So in 6 months time if starlink is the gem that people say then sure.

I think he finds a way to trade inflated SpaceX stock to o buy Tesla and call it a day.

Re: SpaceX S-1

#90

Elon Musk owns 12.3% of Class A shares and 93.6% of Class B shares. Class B shares have 10x the voting power of class A shares. Overall Elon controls 85.1% of the voting power in the company. If Elon sells any of his Class B shares, they automatically convert into Class A shares. Retail and institutional investors will have practically no say in the direction of the SpaceX. > Each share of Class A common stock will e…

The S&P 500 index criteria didn’t allow this sort of nonsense starting in 2017, but they relaxed the rule again to allow dual class listings to be included in the index in 2023.

Not looking forward to SpaceX.AI.Twitter’s eventual inclusion, I do not like founder controlled publicly traded companies.

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