SpaceX releases a 17-minute IPO roadshow video, highlighting future goals such as asteroid mining

Odaily Odaily reported that SpaceX released a 17-minute IPO roadshow video to retail investors early Thursday. The video was posted on the company's official website, with a prominent section encouraging visitors to open brokerage accounts. The only person appearing in the video is CFO Bret Johnsen, who connects the logic behind the company's rocket, satellite, and artificial intelligence businesses. Johnsen stated: "Elon founded SpaceX with the goal of changing humanity's destiny and making humanity a multi-planetary species. Excitingly, we have been able to expand this vision through Starlink and AI solutions."

The roadshow materials listed several future goals, but without specific implementation timelines, including increasing gross margins from 49% last year to approximately 70%, and achieving a net profit margin of around 45%, compared to -26% last year. Johnsen also discussed SpaceX's massive capital expenditures. He said that it's not only us making large-scale investments in capital expenditures, especially in the AI sector of the current business, which has accounted for the largest share of capital spending over the past two years. Johnsen also notably mentioned asteroid mining, a business model that has yet to be validated and in which SpaceX had not shown significant interest prior to the IPO. (Jinshi)