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* **Overall Thesis:** The 20-year valuation model for Tesla and SpaceX treats them as engines that can reorganize how the world moves bits, atoms, energy, and intelligence, rather than just growth companies.
* **Combined Scale (Mid-2030s):** By the mid-2030s, their combined scale is projected to look like "a pair of industrial civilizations sitting on top of the global economy."
* **Combined Scale (Mid-2040s):** By the mid-2040s, the base case is considered "extreme," even for ambitious long-term forecasts.
* **SpaceX Operating Profit (Mid-2040s):** SpaceX operating profit alone is projected to be in the trillions of dollars per year by the mid-2040s.
* **Tesla's Transformation (Mid-2040s):** Tesla's autonomy and robotics businesses are projected to grow from nearly nothing into pillars that dwarf the old car company.
* **SpaceX's Transformation (Mid-2040s):** SpaceX is expected to transform from a launch company to a "planetary infrastructure" provider.
**SpaceX Specifics:**
* **SpaceX in 2026:** Still a recognizable SpaceX, with rockets flying often, Starlink growing, and AI infrastructure just beginning to matter. Annual revenue is in the order of tens of billions of dollars.
* **SpaceX Hand-off Decade (2030s):** Launch remains important, with Starship making everything else possible, but it's not where most of the money piles up.
* **Starlink's Evolution:** Starlink becomes a global connectivity fabric, offering home internet, mobile service, and an enterprise/backbone business using laser mesh and next-generation satellites.
* **Starlink Profitability (Mid-2030s):** By the mid-2030s, Starlink is a "very large, highly profitable network business" in its own right.
* **Intelligence Infrastructure (Step Change):** Terrestrial AI data centers and later, orbital compute via "Starmind," transform SpaceX into a company that sells "raw thinking power at planetary scale."
* **AI-Related Profit (Mid-2030s):** By the mid-2030s, AI-related operating profit already overshadows launch and exceeds Starlink.
* **AI Compute Dominance (Mid-2040s):** By the mid-2040s, AI compute is the dominant engine of the entire SpaceX picture, representing the large majority of profit and making the company "hundreds of times larger than today's company in terms of profits."
* **AI Software & Models (Conservative):** The model conservatively assumes SpaceX AI earns "some real share," not necessarily leading the category or holding a lead for 20 years. Upside if products do better (given the team, "never bet against Elon Musk") is outside the base case and represents a large upside gap.
* **X Platform Role:** The X platform remains a real media and payments business, but it's "barely a garnish" in the main plot of the model.
* **SpaceX Narrative Summary:**
* **Late 2020s:** Proving Starship-class heavy lift and global broadband as a public company.
* **2030s:** Industrializing bandwidth and AI on Earth and in orbit.
* **2040s:** Operating as a core layer of civilization's energy-to-intelligence stack.
* **SpaceX Upside Case:** Not a better rocket company, but the company that owns the "pipes and the power for a much larger economy."
**Tesla Specifics:**
* **Tesla in 2026:** Largely the company the public knows, with vehicles driving most profit, energy storage as a meaningful second act, and Full Self-Driving (FSD) growing but not yet dominant. RoboTaxi and Optimus are "almost invisible" in early numbers.
* **Tesla Mix Changes (2030s):** Cars still sell but stop being the whole story.
* **Energy Storage Scaling:** Utility-scale energy storage scales into a real industrial franchise due to grid and AI load demand, despite ASP declines. Annual deployments reach "one terawatt hour" by the mid-2040s.
* **FSD Scaling:** Full Self-Driving software scales with the fleet.
* **RoboTaxi Impact:** Once network and regulation allow unsupervised miles at significant scale, RoboTaxi becomes a real transportation platform with major financial impact. By mid-2040s, it's a "major pillar," though smaller than Optimus.
* **Optimus Seed (Mid-2030s):** Optimus is still early but is the "seed of something much larger."
* **Tesla Business Transformation (Mid-2040s):** Vehicle hardware profits relative to the rest of the company become "a spec."
* **Optimus Dominance (Mid-2040s):** Optimus (humanoid robots sold with software) becomes the "single largest Tesla profit engine," embodying the idea of Tesla selling "general purpose labor."
* **Tesla Dominance Story:** Tesla as the "operating system for physical work and autonomous mobility," not just more Model Ys.
* **Tesla Upside:** Cars fund data and manufacturing muscle, then autonomy and robots "re-rate the company into a different industry altogether."
**Combined Companies & Merger:**
* **Combined Fair Value:** The combined base case fair value of the two companies (2026-2046) sits in "multi-trillion dollar territory," larger than either company alone and many people's intuition.
* **Model's Question:** The model asks "what if reusable launch, global connectivity, AI infrastructure, autonomy, and humanoid labor, all partially work."
* **Merger Option:** A merger is optional in the model, not assumed as destiny.
* **Merger Synergies:** Synergies (shared manufacturing, AI, overhead savings) are real but secondary to the main story.
* **Main Story (Combined):** SpaceX and Tesla attack different bottlenecks of the same future (energy, transport, compute, intelligence, and labor), with each's success making the other's world more plausible.
* **Aggressive Narrative:** This narrative is aggressive and a "bet that a small number of platforms can become the backbone of how a more energy-rich, more automated, more intelligent world actually runs."
* **Merger Proposal:** The speaker believes the idea of a merger will be proposed to investors and that it's "only a matter of time."
* **Merger Sense:** It "obviously does" make sense for the two companies to become one.
* **Merger Variable:** The main variable is whether enough Tesla shareholders would vote in favor.
* **Model's Merger Analysis:** The spreadsheet includes independent 20-year models for SpaceX and Tesla, plus sheets relating to a potential merger (year, financial benefits, synergies, fair ratio).
* **Fair Merger Ratio:** A dedicated sheet in the model calculates the fair merger ratio based on estimated fair value for both companies over 20 years.
* **Ratio Expectation:** Tesla investors would likely want a premium above Tesla's fair value.
* **Call to Action:** Investors should do their homework and understand the intrinsic value of both companies before a merger vote.
* **Future Outlook:** The next 20 years for Tesla and SpaceX are predicted to be "unfucking believably awesome."
**Patreon & AG1 Sponsor:**
* **Full Model Access:** The full valuation model, including all numbers and the plain English narrative sheet, is available on Patreon at the investor level and above.
* **Model Depth:** The model contains hundreds of hours of work, dozens of sheets, and can be explored at varying levels of depth.
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