Privatize the profit, socialize the losses? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one.
Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX.
Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's first quarterly earnings statement as a public company.
The space sector of the business didn't break a billion dollars this quarter and contributed only a touch over 10 percent of the company's revenue.
SpaceX remains its own biggest customer.
There just aren't enough other people who want its rockets.
And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets … Read the full story at The Verge.