Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Casey Handmer, Terraform Industries
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Casey is the Founder of Terraform Industries. He's written a bunch of great essays on Elon's Mass Driver, Starship, the economics of space compute, Starmind, and how Elon operates.
If you want to go work at Terraform they're hiring for a bunch of roles: https://terraformindustries.com/
Casey on X: https://x.com/CJHandmer
Ti on X: https://x.com/ti_morse
Timestamps:
0:09 How the Mass Driver is going to work
2:54 Mass Driver vs scaling Starship
4:26 Economics of space compute vs building data centers on Earth
8:53 Why large scale projects are becoming illegal
14:26 Terafab
20:02 Starmind
26:19 Maximum scale as fast as possible
27:43 Luisiana launch tower buildout
30:13 Elon’s decade long company baking period
32:56 Firing teams
37:35 Starting companies
41:57 Being unfiltered publicly
42:52 DOGE
46:39 Deregulating without a major war
55:17 Founder-led companies are mini dictatorships
58:53 Taxes
1:03:26 Civilization hard resets
1:05:30 Starship scaling constraints
1:07:16 How Elon sets objectives
1:09:31 Universal high income
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What blows my mind is that they’re almost finished with the building and it took them less than half a year. This made me realize that StarMind is actually something serious that a lot of money is being invested in.
They have already cleared the forest and erased half of the hills on the site, and are pouring footings for foundations. Even people who know elons speed can greatly underestimate it sometimes.
I relate to the complications of wealth, and insane tax structure. My wife spent 4 years at SpaceX in a senior position and was rewarded with a lot of stock options. Her salary was 130k, a good salary by any measure. But the AGI was 367k due to the company shares. Our tax bill was 90k. But we haven't sold any shares. Nor could we before the IPO. So even though we made 367k on paper, our actual liquid income was closer to 40k. Now after the IPO we can dell shares to pay the taxes, but then we are taxed on the shares we sell, to pay the taxes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to have this problem, but it's still a problem. But my wife is thoroughly frustrated working 60 hours a week to pay the government 200% of her take home pay and live near poverty doing it.
This time it was the “if you build a real stinker” 😂😂
Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Casey Handmer, Terraform Industries
Relentless
36,191 views
Casey is the Founder of Terraform Industries. He's written a bunch of great essays on Elon's Mass Driver, Starship, the economics of space compute, Starmind, and how Elon operates.
If you want to go work at Terraform they're hiring for a bunch of roles: https://terraformindustries.com/
Casey on X: https://x.com/CJHandmer
Ti on X: https://x.com/ti_morse
Timestamps:
0:09 How the Mass Driver is going to work
2:54 Mass Driver vs scaling Starship
4:26 Economics of space compute vs building data centers on Earth
8:53 Why large scale projects are becoming illegal
14:26 Terafab
20:02 Starmind
26:19 Maximum scale as fast as possible
27:43 Luisiana launch tower buildout
30:13 Elon’s decade long company baking period
32:56 Firing teams
37:35 Starting companies
41:57 Being unfiltered publicly
42:52 DOGE
46:39 Deregulating without a major war
55:17 Founder-led companies are mini dictatorships
58:53 Taxes
1:03:26 Civilization hard resets
1:05:30 Starship scaling constraints
1:07:16 How Elon sets objectives
1:09:31 Universal high income