Starlink
SpaceX's satellite internet constellation providing broadband internet access globally, especially in remote areas.
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Starlink is a money-making branch of SpaceX, the way AWS grew out of Amazon, per Travis.
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Starlink is a money-making branch of SpaceX, the way AWS grew out of Amazon, per Travis.
"Everyone will have a nuanced view on Starlink. Maybe they're skeptical on Starlink direct-to-cell. I think the plan to use distributed Starlink — effectively small cells, FTO cells — is interesting."
One of several SpaceX business lines investors consider alongside orbital compute and Grok
"The fact that Elon has taken SpaceX to Starlink to data centers in space — it's just like nobody would start there."
Cited as an extension of SpaceX, analogous to how AWS extended Amazon's core business
"Starlink, great idea. By the way, makes money. But this is not Starlink."
Contrasted with SpaceX's broader AI and asteroid-mining ambitions, which Grantham views as speculative.
"Then they built out the Starlink network which is now like a major driver of their business, right?"
Evolved from SpaceX's original space launch business
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Starlink works where cell signal is blocked or missing. Signal needs a working connection to function.
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Starlink works where cell signal is blocked or missing. Signal needs a working connection to function.
"We ended up getting Starlink. We got Starlink in a TJ jail. We ended up getting Starlink and had Wi-Fi for a little while."
After cell scramblers disrupted regular signal
"I can't wait till Starlink is retrofitted into every car. When you have gigabit connection speeds to your car, it's going to be extraordinary. These vehicles that have GPUs on board and Starlink are going to be inference edge computing."
Contrasted with current cellular coverage gaps (e.g., driving through Hollywood Hills with no signal)
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Rivals like Rocket Lab are positioning to challenge Starlink's 10,000-satellite fleet, while Ukraine's Starlink access gives it a drone warfare edge Russia lacks.
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Rivals like Rocket Lab are positioning to challenge Starlink's 10,000-satellite fleet, while Ukraine's Starlink access gives it a drone warfare edge Russia lacks.
"The big advantage that Ukraine has is Starlink. So they have access to Starlink and Russia doesn't have access to Starlink. You're seeing more AI drones coming out of Ukraine than you're seeing out of Russia."
Major advantage over Russia who lacks access; recently blocked positioning features for non-military contracts
"This partnership is probably going up against Starlink. SpaceX already operates a 10,000 satellite fleet."
Rocket Lab/Iridium are positioning to compete directly against Starlink
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Starlink keeps you online where cell service fails. Without it, tools like Wispr Flow stop working in dead zones.
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Starlink keeps you online where cell service fails. Without it, tools like Wispr Flow stop working in dead zones.
"I'm going to get the Starlink Mini on the road and I want to get this executive van. Put a Starlink on it and then I could just recapture, you know, whatever an hour a day."
Needed because cell connectivity is unreliable in Hill Country, Texas, which causes Whisper Flow to fail
What creators say
"Another huge shout out to Starlink. How good do I sound right now? ... Starlink is bananas."
More from All-In Podcast →+1 more mention from All-In
"And they have Starlink and they have access and VPNs. And so, they want to be part of the future."
"I choose a Starlink-enabled airline over non. People are posting on X saying, 'I'm going to only fly the airlines that have Starlink.'"
More from Peter Diamandis →+12 more mentions from Peter
"I would preferentially fly any airline that has Starlink on it. Actually, I would love when I buy a flight... just put a little Starlink logo on th..."
"Their near-term cash engine Starlink is outperforming. They have 12 million subscribers. That's 2x year-over-year. The revenues grew 66% to 4.3 bil..."
"We had the first supersonic installation of Starlink so people around the world could tune in watching a video filmed on an iPhone streamed via Starlink."
More from Blake Scholl →+1 more mention from Blake
"The first supersonic air-to-air live stream filmed on an iPhone, streamed via Starlink — and of course, the most importantly, legalizing supersonic..."
"I was on a call with Elon and I kept dropping because of these dead zones. I was like, I'm either going to get fired or I'm putting a mini on my car, and so now I have Starlink on my car."
More from Gwynne Shotwell →"Like Starlink. Like what? Have a thing that's the size of an iPad I take to the mountains and I get high-speed internet. It's bananas."
More from Joe Rogan →+6 more mentions from Joe
"Where the fuck would we be without these wizards who have figured out cell phones and laptops and high-speed internet and Starlink?"
"Well, you won't even need it now. It's Starlink. Just slap one of those things on your roof."
"Each collar now can talk to Starlink and they also talk to each other. So they kind of coordinate a mesh. They elect the best leader to then talk to Starlink. That kind of saves power and cost."
More from Craig Piggott →"On the top, you've got a Starlink Mini. That's right. It allows us to do two things: test out cloud inference — we're exploring running some delays and world models in the cloud — and it also allows us to have good connectivity to write code and s..."
More from Ethan Goodhart →"We've just signed a contract with SpaceX for our next 20 satellites to have a Starlink laser terminal that gives us very high bandwidth, low latency connectivity."
More from Philip Johnston →+1 more mention from Philip
"For the next 25 of our satellites, we'll have two Starlink — they call it PLA, plug-and-play laser terminals — on our satellite, and then one laser..."
"I forgot my Starlink. So let me apologize to everybody. That was a critical error when you're on the road or on the water."
More from Jason Calacanis →+5 more mentions from Jason
"Did you see the giant Starlink versions now? They make like a really big version — I think you got one of the enterprise versions — but there's lik..."
"You put a Starlink on your roof. Now you've got a distributed system where you get a couple of these Powerwalls with their own silicon in it and a ..."
"Integrated Starlink — that is this panel on the top of the airframe — giving it unlimited range anywhere in the world. If I wanted to take Guardian off and fly it into the Pacific Ocean, that is something that I would be able to do without losing ..."
More from Blake Resnick →"I now have a very complex networking setup that combines two cellular networks and a Starlink Mini so that I have uninterrupted, beautiful connectivity to and from the city every day."
More from Clay Bavor →"We ended up getting Starlink. We got Starlink in a TJ jail. We ended up getting Starlink and had Wi-Fi for a little while."
More from Daniel Rodriguez →"The big advantage that Ukraine has is Starlink. So they have access to Starlink and Russia doesn't have access to Starlink. You're seeing more AI drones coming out of Ukraine than you're seeing out of Russia."
More from Ian Laffey →"Then I'm going on a longer trip with that car. I also put a Starlink unit into the back uh and then just like um you know if someone else drives I can work from from from there."
More from Tobi Lütke →"I was actually one of the first people to get it in Montana and it works fantastic. I have the little one that's like a book. It's fucking great take it we I took it to Utah. We were streaming stuff while we were in the cabins. It was awesome. It'..."
More from Andy Stumpf →"I want to start by shaming publicly Delta for not adopting Starlink... how atrocious the internet coverage in the air on Delta flights was. Just do it already... just use Starlink. If there were a better system out there, use that. But Starlink is..."
More from Alex Wissner-Gross →"I'm going to get the Starlink Mini on the road and I want to get this executive van. Put a Starlink on it and then I could just recapture, you know, whatever an hour a day."
More from This Week in Startups →+6 more mentions from This
"You got fiber optic lines. You can put multiple industrial Starlinks now on the roof."
"Is there a future when there's your setup in a clinic somewhere and maybe a doctor can remote in to it from a place where they're qualified and tra..."
"I don't know why every airline doesn't have Starlink. You know, I'm suffering on some meager thin pipe connection flying over the poles, over the Northern Territories, and there's nothing."
More from Salim Ismail →+1 more mention from Salim
"As a failed engineer, this is like the greatest thing I've ever seen. You've got SpaceX, you've got Tesla, you've got Starlink, you've got Neuralin..."
"Have you been on a flight with Starlink? No? You should. You will hate being on a flight without Starlink after that. Imagine we can record this — I can watch this podcast while flying on a plane. Starlink lets you do that."
More from Aravind Srinivas →"I believe that within a few years Starlink will power a device which will actually enable you to make a phone call anywhere in the world. Starlink works all the time, no radio towers."
More from Thomas Laffont →"I think he was the best person at creating actual useful products since Steve Jobs. And I'm talking about Starlink. That is a useful product that delights its users."
More from Cal Newport →"Oh, suddenly Starlink has been turned off. I'm trying to get Starshield back up and running, but don't know where my access lies with that."
More from Tom Bilyeu →+5 more mentions from Tom
"So there's been all this debate about Ukraine's access to Starlink. Starlink is different than Starshield. Now, I think Elon is being a little too ..."
"I had never considered the fact that Starlink is closed over Russia. And so that means for these guys doing a lot of their targeting, they're not a..."
"But they got Starlink now, so you can watch anything."
More from John Coogan →+11 more mentions from John
"We know Starlink is available on planes now and he's going direct to cell and he's going to put the data centers in space."
"Wow. Starlink is that good."
"JVL has this theory like we should definitely nationalize SpaceX. We should nationalize Starlink, and I don't like nationalizing private companies."
More from Sarah Longwell →"You remember the kind of fiasco when Starlink was discontinued for everyone in Ukraine a few years ago. That's the danger of a centralized network. There's actually a switch that can be flipped. And we love Starlink. They've done a lot for connect..."
More from Carter Fowler →"The Starlink network basically becomes this incredible radar system that sits above the Earth to look down on things that would normally be stealth from the surface of the Earth."
More from David Friedberg →"Building a resilient Starlink backbone is going to be super important to actually having a functioning internet in a few years."
More from Emad Mostaque →"For me, like when you're organizing a camp or dealing with, you know, oh we ran out of water on the car, it helps because you can communicate... If you're using it for anything other than like local communications, then maybe it's the wrong use."
More from Barrett Lyon →"You're not buying a Starlink. You're getting to partner with cutting-edge American technology."
More from John Jovanovic →"They have to do this without Starlink because once you enter Russian territory they're not allowed to use Starlink. Starlink is not turned on for them."
More from Fareed Zakaria →"Because of Starlink, they can have a completely fully operational data center as long as they have power and access to the sky."
More from Christopher Zuk →"Think of a lot of the Starlink satellites that you'd have up right now that use Hall-effect ion thrusters right now. They're generating electricity through solar power and then using electromagnetic forces — they're ionizing either krypton or xeno..."
More from Jared Isaacman →"Starlink bringing low-cost internet access to the poorest communities in the world — which is amazing — something that people don't talk about but it's an amazing consumer surplus. There was never going to be an economic case to build internet acc..."
More from Gavin Baker →+4 more mentions from Gavin
"Everyone will have a nuanced view on Starlink. Maybe they're skeptical on Starlink direct-to-cell. I think the plan to use distributed Starlink — e..."
"Forget Starlink V3, forget Starlink Direct to Cell, Grok 4.5 and Cursor — the sum of that probably hits a $10 billion ARR pretty quickly."
"They're like, 'Oh, we have to bring in solar and Starlink and dig a well and the community is very different.'"
More from Joe Liemandt →"Starlink probably ends up being rounding error. I think cars are rounding error. Applications — which interestingly in the SpaceX S1, SpaceX went on and on about digital optimists and applications — maybe seems unlikely."
More from Alexander Wissner-Gross →+1 more mention from Alexander
"Starlink — everyone knows that's space communication, probably going to launch, if you believe the rumors, a direct-to-cell mobile service sometime..."
"The SpaceX team was like, 'No, we're going to launch global communications. We're going to power the internet for everyone in the world.' They had no Starlink satellites in the sky at the time. And of course, they did it. And if you think about th..."
More from a16z →+1 more mention from a16z
"Starlink is working on direct optical inner satellite links. How much of that is a threat?"
"The whole thing now rides on not rockets or being an interplanetary species or even Starlink. It works on — it's basically going to work or not work based on his AI capex bet."
More from Scott Galloway →"There's so much crazy data that's commercially available, including satellite providers doing cool stuff — fisheries paying, basically, 'We'll put a Starlink on your fishery so they can start collecting AIS data for vessel tracking.'"
More from Bilawal Sidhu →"There is not enough demand for communications on Earth to finance that via Starlink. There's no business model for Mars yet. So this is a gift to SpaceX that we have this AI demand."
More from Ramez Naam →"Satellite launching integrated into Starlink has been superb — vertically integrated right. So you can join the dots in the past and say it all makes sense."
More from Harry Stebbings →"I think Starlink's just an unbelievable juggernaut cash machine. The Starlink business alone could be a trillion dollar market cap within 2 years, within 18 months."
More from Brad Gerstner →+1 more mention from Brad
"Starlink's going from, I think, 10 million people to 20 million people. They're going to launch this retail mobile service so that we can have Star..."
"You don't even need that little Starlink Mini or other satellite provider dish near you anymore. It's just starting to emerge."
More from Nikhil Reddy →"The fact that Elon has taken SpaceX to Starlink to data centers in space — it's just like nobody would start there."
More from Travis Kalanick →"The SpaceX Starlink satellites are providing that in these remote places of the world. So it's not a problem for them. It's a blessing."
More from Steven Bartlett →"Starlink, great idea. By the way, makes money. But this is not Starlink."
More from Jeremy Grantham →"They're putting up all these satellites and they're trying to again pass the savings on to the subscribers for the Starlink internet. And so here you're going to have again a recurring annual membership, a no-brainer value proposition to a mass ma..."
More from Shaan Puri →+1 more mention from Shaan
"Starlink is basically internet service. Specifically, it's really great at giving you internet in places that have shitty internet. So, rural areas..."
"Before you're like, 'Hey, we didn't expect to have Wi-Fi on the flight, but now we've got Starlink and you're like, wow, that's amazing.' And then you get expectant of Starlink and then the downtime is so bad."
More from Ryan Petersen →"It wasn't obvious that reusable rockets was at play. It wasn't obvious that Starlink was going to evolve."
More from Skyler Chan →"you had Loom versus you know Starlink"
More from Henri Stern →"So it becomes a scale manufacturing problem. So it's like you know Starlink. We've got a user terminal factory here in Bassrop"
More from Scott Nolan →"Maybe you could build a Starlink into it."
More from TBPN →+9 more mentions from TBPN
"if you're a a wireless carrier and you don't want to be locked into Starlink exclusively"
"the launch business is fantastic but it's not enough without Starlink which is a fantastic business but that's not enough without the AI business"
"The Dodger Dogs had cameras and lights on them. And as they were being deployed out of the PEZ dispenser, they were pointed back with their lights and their cameras back at the Starship. It was just absolutely incredible watching from a view like ..."
More from The Game w/ Alex Hormozi →"Well, now with Starlink that that will finally be solved."
More from Josh Browder →"and then certainly Starlink was the big unlock more recently"
More from Kevin Hartz →"Then they built out the Starlink network which is now like a major driver of their business, right?"
More from Elad Gil →"SpaceX is amazing, Starlink is amazing"
More from Rory O'Driscoll →"We want Starlink. We want SpaceX. We want to win the AI race."
More from Jason Oppenheim →"I look at Elon Musk and providing Starlink. If it wasn't for that, I'm not sure that the Ukrainian government was going to be able to fight these guys on the ground"
More from Ian Bremmer →"for the same amount of money that was spent, I think every American citizen could have got Starlink"
More from Chris Williamson →+1 more mention from Chris
"For the same amount of money that was spent, I think every American citizen could have got Starlink."
"If you had a Starlink, you could just do this on the plane."
More from Din Thomas →"Orders of magnitude which is driven Starlink and is going to drive even more."
More from Eric Jorgenson →+1 more mention from Eric
"Starlink was like a mess right it was 10x too expensive and they were building one-tenth of how many they needed"
"what Elon did with Starlink. I mean, that's a telecom infrastructure play and this will be an AI compute infrastructure play."
More from Tae Kim →+1 more mention from Tae
"Think what Elon did with Starlink. I mean that's a telecom infrastructure play and this will be an AI computing infrastructure"
"So now AI is the killer app that enables this much like the internet came along was the killer app that enabled Starlink."
More from Jim Cantrell →"Starlink was being allowed to be used to guide Russian cruise missiles and drones... After the Ukrainians proved to the world, using the equipment recovered, that Starlink was basically actively aiding and abetting in mass murder, Starlink changed..."
"Starlink was being allowed to be used to guide Russian cruise missiles and drones, long term about allowing them even hit moving targets. After the Ukrainians proved to the world using the equipment recovered that Starlink was basically actively a..."
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