Either SpaceX's board members are just as delulu, or they're confident this goal is unachievable so they won't have to dole out the pay package.

Thanks to the ongoing trial pitting billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman against each other, it's come to light that Valve founder Gabe Newell--the third billionaire in this story--emailed Musk to ask if Hideo Kojima could get a tour of SpaceX.

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its next-generation Starship rocket, according to ⁠the company’s ⁠IPO registration reviewed by Reuters, a sum that dwarfs the cost of ⁠its workhorse Falcon rocket as Elon Musk’s space company nears a decade trying to perfect a fully reusable launch system.

In Podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya laid out a contrarian take that Elon Musk just locked in a bargain with SpaceX’s deal to either acquire AI coding startup Cursor by the end of 2026 for $60 billion, or pay $10 billion for a collaborative partnership.

Elon Musk is pitching SpaceX investors on something much bigger—and riskier—than rockets and Starlink. SpaceX’s planned mid-June IPO is shaping up as a test of how eagerly public markets will fund Musk’s next grand bet: using Starlink’s fast-growing internet business to bankroll a costly push