SpaceX's superfans may have established their next must-see TV.
The missile and AI company's third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday included a live video stream featuring SpaceX's big three: CEO Elon Musk, COO Gwynne Shotwell, and CFO Bret Johnson.
The video, which opened alongside cinematic shots of SpaceX's products, featured the executives seated at a array speaking to the camera from the SpaceX Starlink factory in Bastrop, Texas, alongside SpaceX-branded h2o bottles in forefront of them.
"In command to comprehend the nature of the cosmos and all these essential questions, we must develop the range and measure of consciousness," Musk stated in a record that played complete images of area and the moon, alongside the outcome looking far additional akin a trailer for a sci-fi movie than the commencement of a company earnings report.
Musk wore a dreary T-shirt featuring a logo for Grok, SpaceX's AI assistant, and a dreary leather jacket, a traditional sartorial choice famously preferred by another Big Tech CEO.
SpaceX additionally used the video format to portion a recap video of a latest Starship flight as fine as a theatrical video simulation, complete alongside orchestral music, of an upcoming escape in which the company's elephantine mechanical arms and stand will try to capture the two the booster and the ship, calling it a "profound innovation milestone in the former of civilization and consciousness."
While earnings calls mostly contain live audio, live video streams are far small common. SpaceX's archetypal earnings study as a community business in August did not contain video. Netflix, Duolingo, and Robinhood have all livestreamed their earnings calls.
Netflix has streamed live video of its earnings calls for years, including its latest call on Tuesday, which featured its co-CEOs. Robinhood's CEO told The Verge final twelvemonth the company's video earnings call was inspired by the NBA post-game interview.
SpaceX reported a important addition in the two AI spending and revenue. The inventory was up 5% in after-hours trading.
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