Lewis Hong

“December 21, 2015 — every SpaceX person remembers this date very clearly. We successfully sent a rocket into orbit and successfully recovered it.”

“Information transmission from point A to point B in the vacuum of space is still about twice as fast as the most advanced fiber optics on Earth — 5G, 6G, whatever G.”

“SpaceX is worth at least a trillion dollars — at least.”

“SpaceX and Tesla created a cohort of young entrepreneurs who know how to build advanced hardware in America. Everyone thought manufacturing advanced hardware in America was basically impossible. These entrepreneurs — in their 20s and 30s, very young, with both brains and resources — their next projects are what we call the SpaceX Mafia, and they are what our fund focuses on.”

“In 2026 predictions, I believe this year's Grok is something everyone should watch closely, because I think a lot of the investments and buildout Grok did last year will emerge this year. They built a 100,000-GPU super data center so fast — where did all that compute go?”

“When I left SpaceX I was managing 7 departments — more than 3,000 rocket components.”