> roughly half of the IPO price they were seeking

That's already very high. Their profitable businesses are (1) Starlink and (2) Launching satellites. Starlink is growing revenue at maybe 50%, and revenue for launching satellites is growing maybe 10% annually.

But Goldman Sachs, which is leading the IPO process is telling investors that it expected SpaceX’s total revenue to reach $474 billion in 2030, up from $18.7 billion last year. That's 25x growth of revenue in just 4 years.

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laughing_man 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I have read the Google deal makes xAI profitable. In the short term, anyway.

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petilon 18 hours ago | parent [-]

xAI failed to produce a frontier model. They got involved into nudifying and other questionable activities as well. People started leaving in droves: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/xai-musk-addresses-wa...

xAI is a failed company, as is X. Their merger into SpaceX is basically a scam. Elon Musk justified this by saying he is going to send xAI servers into space using SpaceX. This is an unproven idea, not ready for investing.

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laughing_man 17 hours ago | parent [-]

What I was trying to point out is xAI has a lot of data center capacity and is making bank renting it to other companies.

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petilon 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, but renting out data center capacity is not that lucrative. You get 15% markup that's all.

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laughing_man 15 hours ago | parent [-]

15% of a billion dollars is a lot of money.

	▲	petilon 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is low-margin business, does not explain their 1.8T valuation.