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Al Root

Al Root

Jul 20, 2026

27:36
What is a mega rocket test flight, and why is this so important?
Al RootGUEST
27:41
Well, Starship is what you're talking about, the largest rocket humans have ever built, designed to be fully reusable, uh, and dramatically lowering the cost to reach space.
Al RootGUEST
27:50
You cannot overstate the importance of spa- of Starship to the SpaceX story.
Al RootGUEST
27:54
It is the flywheel over, uh, that drives all value creation at the company.
Al RootGUEST
27:59
Elon wants to put up bigger satellites for more b- uh, that have more bandwidth for its Starlink product that's, uh, disrupting, uh, the Wi-Fi business.
Al RootGUEST
28:08
Uh, a he wants to put up, uh, orbital AI data centers, uh, and disrupt OpenAI Anthropic and, and drive the cost of AI down and dominate that business.
Al RootGUEST
28:19
Um, all of it is a function of taking costs to reach orbit, which are roughly, let's say, two thousand dollars per kilogram, and then eventually making them two hundred dollars per kilogram.

9 MINS LATER

37:07
Why do you think Uber is undervalued, or do you think Uber is undervalued?
3:24
What was the mood like around the company at that time, and what were investors buying into?
Al RootGUEST
3:29
I mean, the size was infinitely smaller than SpaceX, and there was incredible skepticism that you could build a profitable, attractive electric vehicle.
Al RootGUEST
3:42
You know, you're competing with EV1, Nissan Leafs, things like that.
Al RootGUEST
3:45
Still wasn't profitable.
Al RootGUEST
3:46
Battery prices, you need so much scale in automotive businesses.
Al RootGUEST
3:49
So the size was something that is completely different.
Al RootGUEST
3:53
Elon's reputation is something completely different.
8:54
Why is that?
9:49
Thanks.
Al RootGUEST
9:49
Baron, not Baron's ETF, uh, that had SpaceX stock.
Al RootGUEST
9:53
Next.
Al RootGUEST
9:54
No, I, I think the official term is crazy.
Al RootGUEST
9:57
Uh, I think that is the stock market term for what's gone in the space stocks.
Al RootGUEST
10:01
Uh, people can be funny, and, and everybody gets, uh, you know, uh, fear, uh, FOMO, trading activity, momentum chasers, whatever happens, right? Like, so Redwire, uh, makes solar p- uh, makes solar panels and antennas.
Al RootGUEST
10:14
It has space business, fine company.

12 MINS LATER

22:10
Al, how will the integration of the stocks work, and how do you think they'll affect the broader market?
16:49
[laughs] No, I would not.
Al RootGUEST
16:49
Um, okay.
Al RootGUEST
16:51
So Tesla, you know, off the top, uh, it's, uh, coming into the week, it was on, uh, coming into last week, it was on an eight-week losing streak.
Al RootGUEST
16:59
It had performed very poorly since the last earnings report.
Al RootGUEST
17:02
I think there's a couple reasons for that.
Al RootGUEST
17:04
One, the EV business is struggling.
Al RootGUEST
17:07
Two, their capital spending was gonna more than double as, uh, as Elon Musk pivoted into all of these AI opportunities, robo taxis, and robots.
20:15
Essentially

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