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Garrett Reim
May 21, 2026
SpaceX sees the future AI and the space economy converging in wildly profitable ways. Credit: SpaceX
Up and down SpaceX’s recently filed S-1, its initial-public-offering registration, are the hallmarks of CEO Elon Musk’s favorite business strategy: vertical integration. Vertical integration—the practice of developing and building systems in-house instead of buying from a supplier—has long been…
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