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▶ 2:27 · $SPCX · SpaceX IPOs at $2.89T Market Cap, US Govt Suspends Fable & Mythos 5, Altman Delays OpenAI’s IPO |265
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Peter H. Diamandis

SpaceX IPOs at $2.89T Market Cap, US Govt Suspends Fable & Mythos 5, Altman Delays OpenAI’s IPO |265

2026-06-18 · 16 company · 11 thematic
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salim ismail

Salim Ismail is a serial entrepreneur and strategist who co-wrote Exponential Organizations (ExO 1.0 and 2.0). He leads the OpenExO community of 50,000 people in 150 countries and has worked with Fortune 500 companies (P&G, Siemens Energy, HP, Black & Decker) on edge innovation. He is launching the Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0) as a living AI book via a Claude skill.

peter diamandis

Peter Diamandis hosts the Moonshots podcast with a panel of 'mates.' He founded XPRIZE and Singularity University, sits on boards of Trust & Will and Vesmark, and runs the Future Vision XPRIZE for positive AI futures. He frames discussions around the 'singularity economy' and exponential technologies.

dave blundin

Dave Blundin (DB2) is Peter Diamandis' longtime friend and MIT roommate, partner at Link Ventures, and described as a guru on exponential investing. He focuses on moonshot-stage companies in AI, robotics, and space.

alex wissner-gross

Computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur and investor whose work spans artificial intelligence and complex systems. He is the founder and managing partner of Reified.

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“This is three converging businesses, right? The launch monopoly, and it is a monopoly. It's the Starlink cash engine, and it's an AI frontier lab. All wrapped around a single thesis that we're in the singularity, and humanity's about to be…”
—peter diamandis
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