Trillion in seconds equals
To illustrate the scale of a trillion: if a trillion were seconds, it would equal 32,000 years.
Snapshot · My First Million
The most simplified breakdown of the SpaceX IPO on the internet
Explore episode
Jun 12, 2026
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What even is a trillion dollars?
At 7:12 · chapter starts 7:11
Shaan Puri opens by promising the most relatable SpaceX IPO analysis on the internet — not the smart one, the useful one [1] — Shaan Puri "SpaceX is three businesses stapled together: a launch monopoly, a satellite internet service (Starlink), and an AI play. You're not buying …" 01:35 . He walks through Elon Musk's origin story: fresh off the PayPal sale with ~$200 million in the bank, Elon searches NASA's website for a Mars mission, finds nothing, and begins his rabbit hole. He considers buying a decommissioned ICBM missile from Russia, gets laughed out of the room twice, and decides like any stubborn genius: he'll build his own rocket. Sam Parr frames SpaceX as Elon pushing two twin motel beds together into a 'super bed' — a conglomerate of rockets, satellite internet, AI, and Twitter that makes no obvious sense until you see the whole picture. The conversation establishes the central tension: SpaceX is going public at $1.75 trillion, and it's either the greatest business of the century or a monument to irrational exuberance.
SpaceX market share of launches
SpaceX handles 80–85% of all payload launched into orbit, dominating the commercial launch industry.
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