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▶ 0:05 · $SPCX · Early Starlink spreadsheets already pointed to a stock hockey stick
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Impulse Space CEO Tom Mueller on the early conviction behind Starlink

2026-06-23 · 1 company · 0 thematic
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tom mueller

Propulsion engineer and one of the founding employees of SpaceX, where he led rocket-engine development. Founder and CEO of Impulse Space.

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“When we first designed Starlink, we all had spreadsheets and we were looking at the return on investment... This is going to hockey stick the stock.”
—tom mueller
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Early Starlink spreadsheets already pointed to a stock hockey stick
Tom Mueller says the original Starlink work showed the need to make and fly as many satellites as possible, while skeptics assumed it could not be profitable. The retrospective th…