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My conversation with the legend Steven Mark Ryan, from Solving the Money Problem. We discuss his strategy to buy SpaceX stock and why he thinks the compute business alone will justify the current valuation. Not too mention Starlink or anything else that Elon Musk comes up with. This was a fascinating discussion about SpaceX/xAI's future and made me EVEN MORE bullish on SPCX stock ... Huge shou...

SpaceX is in prime position to disrupt Apple and the entire smartphone industry and launch Starphone. A satellite based device that would remove social media and focus on AI and communication. Think no doomscrolling but just calling, texting, maps (with Robotaxi) and X payments plus grok. It would be the final phone before Neuralink takes off. I think SpaceX should do it and put an end to social m...

One of the biggest pieces of news on Tesla's conference call was an update on Optimus. Tesla is building a 1M unit per year factory in Fremont, California that is set to start production in July or August of this year. They are also building a 10M unit production line in Austin that is set to begin production next summer! Things are heating up! They are keeping the prototypes secret because of...

The USA is almost $39T in debt, and are financial situation seems to be getting worse by the day. One idea I keep coming back to is a Sovereign Wealth Fund. Something that countries like Norway, China, UAE & Singapore have created and utilized as a tremendous $1T+ benefit to citizens. There are a ton of reasons this is super complicated and may never happen. It's political and could easily...

It was a big week for Tesla's Robotaxi network as they expanded to 26 Unsupervised vehicles across Texas (Austin, Dallas, Houston). This comes with the news that the Cybercab has officially entered production as of last week. With more and more of these being spotted in the wild and rolling off the production line, it's only a matter of time before we see Cybercab's deployed on the Rob...

Tesla reported 1.28M active FSD subscriptions at the end of Q1 2026. At $99/month that's equivalent to $1.5B in annual revenue. That's right, Tesla already has a $1.5B / year AI business that is almost 100% profit (pure software) and it's growing like crazy. Subscriptions were up 51% year over year in Q1 and accelerating. With EU approval in the Netherlands paving the way for Europe an...

Founded in 2023, San-Francisco based Ulysses is on a mission to protect our oceans. The company has just announced a $46M Series A led by a16z, after early success of their underwater drones. The company's flagship product is Mako, a configurable under water drone who's first mission is to restore seagrass on the ocean floor. I love the vision of this company to protect the oceans and am r...

My conversation with Jon, who takes the role of confused British guy of the week (joking). He emailed me about coming on the show, and wow, he crushed it helping scheme on everything Terafab, from Intel's relationship with Tesla to the AI bubble. This was a great chat. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! My X:   / gfilche   HyperChange Patreon :)   / hyperchange   Disclaimer: I&#3...

Tesla's Cybercab has officially started production. This comes just as the Robotaxi business has expanded to Houston and Dallas (including unsupervised). Tesla's Robotaxi business did ~1M paid miles in Q1, doubling from Q4 25, and looks like it's about to go exponential as new cities ramp and vehicles expand. This is super exciting and I believe we are on the cusp of a massive accelera...

SpaceX announced a $10B partnership with Cursor AI, and a $60B option to buy the company outright. This caught a ton of people by surprise (including myself) when it was announced. But upon further investigation, this could end up bring a brilliant move. SpaceX / XAI gets to use the excess compute of it's Colossus datacenter and immediately is in the race with Anthropic's Claude (and even...

Tesla Q1 2026 earnings are hot off the press, and the biggest announcement wasn't in the results but on the conference call. Elon Musk and Tesla are now upping CAPEX guidance to $25B in 2026! That's right, they want to spend $25BILLION this year on investments on AI and robotics. This means they will be losing free cash flow and could mean they will have to raise more capital in the future...

Going live for the release of Tesla’s Q1 2026 Shareholder Letter as the company reports earnings today! Updating investors on financials, Robotaxi, Optimus, Cybercab and more! $TSLA investors join in!

Episode 2 of the weekly HyperChange podcast. This week we discuss how XMoney is poised to compete with Robinhood and Coinbase and how this is a great example of how fast things are moving in the era of HyperChange. Companies are getting disrupted in a flash. Stocks like Figma and Adobe are getting crushed as Claude rolls out Design. Does assuming companies will be around in a decade make sense any...

Episode 1 of the Weekly HyperChange Podcast. This week we cover Anthropic passing OpenAI's revenue run-rate in a massive AI industry flex. I'm joined by my homie Jfilche aka the CLAUDE GOD to help us breakdown this epic milestone. We also discuss some Tesla news about the Cybercab and then finish up rambling about space startup Reflect Orbital and then Blue Origin. Oh and a shoutout to my...

Episode 0 of the new Weekly HyperChange Podcast. In this initial episode I start by riffing on the new Terafab announcement by Elon Musk, and then am joined by Josh West to give us an on the ground report from Austin, TX about the Tesla Robotaxi Network. Plus a bunch of Open AI news, the Starcloud funding round and more schemes!! Let me know what you think of this new format in the comments! And l...

Just got back from Austin, TX and there were Waymo's EVERYWHERE. Calling them was super easy through the Uber app, and surprisingly cheap. I had multiple rides across town that were under $10. Everytime the Waymo was super clean and was a perfect experience. It felt like I was living in the future. Waymo is officially at 500,000 rides per week now, a ~$500M revenue run-rate. I wonder when Tesl...

I read The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben and it totally changed my perspective on these incredible plants that surround us! Trees communicate with each other, live in families and can be thousands of years old. We've been living in harmony with them for millions of years and it's not only until recently that we understood how complex they are. My Moonshot proposal is that we need...

An interview with Amy (@_SFTahoe) & Tesla Larry about the upcoming Terafab announcement and potential Tesla/SpaceX/xAI merger. Since Larry's initial theory about merging Tesla & SpaceX, a ton of progress has been made in that direction. SpaceX has acquired xAI and we could be months away from an IPO. Collaborations between the new SpaceX/XAI and Tesla are heating up, with the new AI ch...

Last week Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston confirmed that they will be launching a Bitcoin mining rig in space later this year. This will be the first Bitcoin mined in space and potentially one of the most lucrative use cases for orbital datacenters. This could have huge implications to the Bitcoin network's future decentralization and resiliency. Now this has got me curious ... will SpaceX/xAI g...

I haven't felt this since building my first website 20 years ago ... The internet is fun again. AI has arrived and it is about to change everything as we know it. No job is safe, no industry will stay the same ... we are officially in the era of HyperChange. The bigger the problem the bigger the opportunity. Those who dive deep into AI now have unlimited potential to create incredible business...

Just got back from 4 days in Austin, Texas testing Tesla's Robotaxi network. It was very interesting to show the app to my friends and see their reactions and compare the experience with Waymo/Uber. Robotaxi demand was very high because of low prices, and this mean that about 50% of the time I was unable to call a car due to "high service demand", the other 50% of the time Robotaxi w...

Modeling Tesla's financials from 2026 through 2030. Going from estimating vehicle sales next year, to robotaxi rollout and then optimus impact later this decade. Do you think Tesla is fairly valued at $1.5T after posting $95B in revenue last year (a slight decline) and 4 years of declining earnings? Are we at the start of a massive turn around where Tesla returns to growth and pumps out massiv...

A judge has ruled that the Elon Musk versus OpenAI case is going to trial in April 2026. This is a public grand jury trial, and is gearing up to be an insane spectacle in tech, with leaders like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella and Elon Musk potentially taking the stand in court. The case stems over disputes about the founding and initial funding of OpenAI, where Elon Musk was heavily involved when it wa...

The rumor mill is going crazy! Apparently SpaceX is in talks to merge with XAI ahead of its rumored IPO later this year. This is HUGE news, and now Bloomberg is even reporting Tesla may be involved in the merger as well. Elon Musk has outlined ambitous plans for all of his companies, between investments in Optimus, Cybercab, orbital datacenters, Starlink, XAI compute and more. This could be he nee...

My interview with Alex Grant, the Founder of Magrathea. His company has achieved a breakthrough in refining brines and seawater to create metals and rare earth materials. Magrathea has just signed an agreement with Tetra Industries in Arkansas to create a new US Magnesium supply from one of their bromine brines. This is a HUGE deal, not only a more sustainable way to make metal, but also reshoring...