SpaceX is the one to get. It’s the next Tesla once starlink is fully operational.
Sarbanes-Oxley and the whole accredited investor situation is really a big shame when it comes to having an even remotely level playing field for long-term speculative investments.
Except in very rare cases, where the public markets were the only option for getting enough capital fast, IPOs currently serve more as a dumping ground for companies that have finished most of their growth. Index funds that don't care much can take over from there. Okay, it's harder to get scammed, but you lose the ability to invest in the biggest growth companies along with that.
That sounds wrong to me, they haven't even tapped much into their potential yet. SpaceX is still proving that they are a reliable, viable alternative to government backed space access. To my feeling they are at 1-5% of their journey.
For starlink, I could imagine 75% of the world banning it simply because the network is run by a foreign company. Governments want to keep infrastructure locally owned and controlled. North America is a tiny fraction of the service area, and the only big funding sources on offer are the US government for serving rural communities, and the US government for military use worldwide.
If both those fall through, starlink will fail. If starlink fails and the launch market doesn't pick up, SpaceX will fail.
They might do space tourism. A great enabler will be their Dear Moon mission:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DearMoon_project
I can't see how individual nations can ban Starlink. A small dish antenna will be indistinguishable from the rest of dish antennas:
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-in...
Tell me how Starlink will smuggle dishes in the country, and how will they customers pay the subscription?
The most you can do is execute people who talk about it or try to educate people how to connect, but word gets out eventually...
Hard to say. There are whispers that they bleed cash, which might be the real reason they don't want to go public: publicizing their financials.
It's not that easy to make money launching rockets.
If you're focused on getting to humans to Mars, running an ISP is a distraction, even if it comes with good cash flow. If you're running an ISP, getting to Mars is a distraction. It's better to separate thees two aspects into separate companies.