Lewis Hong
Lewis Hong is the Co-Founder and General Partner of FP Solutions VC, an early-stage venture fund investing in deep tech hardware companies across space, energy, and robotics. He spent approximately seven years at SpaceX, where he held senior operations and launch vehicle leadership roles including lead engineer on the Falcon 9 program. Hong is known for backing founders with engineering pedigrees from SpaceX and Tesla who are building advanced hardware in the United States, and he speaks regularly on deep tech venture investing at conferences such as Deep Tech Week.
“December 21, 2015 — every SpaceX person remembers this date very clearly. We successfully sent a rocket into orbit and successfully recovered it.”
Source→“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.”
Source→“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.”
Source→“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?”
Source→“When I left SpaceX I was managing 7 departments — more than 3,000 rocket components.”
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