Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
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Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
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Re: Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
#2Isn't Starlink basically a part of the US military-industrial complex hiding behind stories of private enterprise, just like many other Silicon Valley companies intricate relationship with the security state as laid out in Yasha Levines Surveillance Valley?
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#3I can’t understate how revolutionary this technology is for those outside of dense urban center. It has even been well utilized by Ukraine in the war and is jamming resistant.
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#4Isn't Starlink basically a part of the US military-industrial complex hiding behind stories of private enterprise, just like many other Silicon Valley companies intricate relationship with the security state as laid out in Yasha Levines Surveillance Valley?
you're thinking of Starshield
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#5This is huge. Space-based individual consumer services being profitable was a pipe dream a decade ago.
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#6I don't trust a single thing he says at this point without evidence, I just can't possibly see it as breakeven without it, which we likely won't receive as they are a private corp.
Re: Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
#7For those who don't know, capital expenses are depreciated over their useful lifetime (for StarLink sats, estimated at 5 years) and aren't accounted for by cashflow.
Cash flow positive tells you they're not going to go broke, at least until they need more capital expenses (5 years...), which is a milestone, sure.
But profit is a better measure of a business's value as a going concern. What happens in 5 years when they can finance with interest rates at 5% and they have competition? I don't know... If they were profitable and could give returns investors needed, that would tell you they can survive.
Re: Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
#8This is huge. Space-based individual consumer services being profitable was a pipe dream a decade ago.
Uhm, no? Do you think all communications satellites operate at a loss?
Re: Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
#9Isn't Starlink basically a part of the US military-industrial complex hiding behind stories of private enterprise, just like many other Silicon Valley companies intricate relationship with the security state as laid out in Yasha Levines Surveillance Valley?
you're thinking of Starshield
Actually not, infrastructure has great geopolitical and geostrategic importance as laid out in the book just mentioned by Levine.
Those who control the data flow, access, search etc. control surveillance and the minds of the masses which is why funding is often seen from the sec state.
Re: Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
#10This is huge. Space-based individual consumer services being profitable was a pipe dream a decade ago.
You mean like the numerous space-based services that have been making money over the past ~30 years?