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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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0:02.2 | The first half of this year, it has been hard to go a day without hearing something new about Elon Musk. |
0:18.3 | Yeah, Musk unleashing Doge on the federal government was obviously the big news story. |
0:23.4 | Followed by activists vandalizing Tesla dealerships. |
0:26.9 | And then we did have SpaceX successfully helping return astronauts from space. |
0:31.3 | That was a win for Musk. |
0:32.7 | And that's not even getting into the more gossipy elements. |
0:35.0 | I'll leave that for a different show. |
0:36.6 | You're no fun. |
0:38.4 | The point is it's too early to talk about ketamine, Darien. |
0:42.2 | And the other point is that Musk's personal brand has been as volatile as the price of Dogecoin. |
0:49.0 | But one area where he is undoubtedly the leader is satellite internet. |
0:53.9 | That's with Starlink. |
0:55.2 | Yes, satellite communications analyst Tim Ferriss says Starlink is top dog. |
1:00.7 | It's already 90% of all the satellite data traffic it goes over Starlink in the world. |
1:06.1 | I mean, it's amazing how dominant. |
1:08.1 | 90% of all satellite internet traffic goes through Starlink. |
1:12.1 | Yes. |
1:12.8 | When you want to stream movies in your law cabin, you know, like Abraham Lincoln did, |
1:17.2 | or check emails on a boat, satellite internet makes that possible. |
1:22.3 | And what Starlink has done is driven prices down so that it's not that much more expensive |
1:27.2 | than broadband. |
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