E135: 400% increase in SpaceX Starship launches; $270m “investment” fund from Shein; AGI test from OpenAI; Apple, Microsoft off OpenAI board; Axiom Space, Gravitics space station deal; $50m for Athletic Brewing; Neuralink second patient next week; xAI kil

Send us Fan MailPre-IPO stock valuations = www.agdillon.com/reportsPre-IPO weekly market update pdf = www.agdillon.com/updatePre-IPO stock index fact sheet = www.agdillon.com/index00:07 | Axiom Space, Gravitics space station deal- Axiom Space, Gravitics develop space stations- $125m deal to develop new space station- Drive in-space manufacturing (new industry!)- SpaceX rockets will deliver new space station to orbit- Axiom Series C in Aug 2023 put the company at a $2.5b valuation- Gravitics posted a seed round in Dec 2022 at a $100m valuation01:41 | $50m for Athletic Brewing- Non-alcoholic beer- General Atlantic led- 10th largest US craft brewery- 19% non-alcoholic beer market share- $90m 2023 revenue, 3m cases sold- $800m valuation- 40% of Americans … 49% millennials, 61% Gen Z … trying to drink less alcohol02:25 | Neuralink second patient next week- Brain computer interface company- First patient, Noland Arbaugh (Jan 2024), can control a computer with just thoughts- Goal is to mitigate chip “thread” retraction and improve thread placement- $7.7b secondary market valuation, +122% vs its Nov 2023 round03:22 | xAI kills Oracle deal- AI large language model company- Owned by Elon Musk, X owns 25%- xAI was renting 24k Nvidia chips from Oracle- Deal ended as xAI building 100k Nvidia chip facility in Tennessee- $24b secondary market valuation, flat to its May 2024 round04:03 | $270m “investment” fund from Shein- Fast fashion company, direct to consumer- $270m into UK/Europe to combat industry waste, support regional brands- IPO expected on London Stock Exchange- Headquartered in Singapore, developed market company?- $66b valuation in its May 2023 Series G04:53 | AGI test from OpenAI- AI large language model business- New test details exactly what an artificial general intelligence (AGI) is- 5 “Levels”, OpenAI currently at Level 1- Level 5 has AI performing organizational work, or AI has autonomous decision making- CEO Altman believes AGI will be accomplished by 2030- $105b secondary market valuation, +22% vs its Apr 2024 last round05:44 | Apple, Microsoft off OpenAI board- Microsoft is $13b investor in OpenAI- OpenAI to power Apple Siri assistant- US/EU regulators voices antitrust concerns- Both companies recused themselves from board observer roles- OpenAI plans to consistently meet with both in future, so no real change?06:35 | 400% increase in SpaceX Starship launches- Space payload delivery and satellite internet company (Starlink)- Seek FAA approval to increase from 4 to 25 Starship launches- Starship has 4x the payload capacity of the current Falcon 9 and 97% less expensive per launch ($2m vs $62m)- $199b secondary market valuation, +10% vs its Jan 2024 round- Note that SpaceX is currently closing a tender round at a $210b valuation07:32 | Pre-IPO -0.23% for week, +62.79% for last 1yr- www.agdillon.com/reports for full pdf- Up week: Chime +13.6%, CoreWeave +8.5%, SpaceX +2.3%, Anthropic +1.8%, ByteDance +1.3%- Down week: Groq -21.9%, Ramp -8.5%, eToro -2.0%, Notion -1.2%, Scale AI -1.0%- Top valuations: ByteDance $289b, SpaceX $199b, OpenAI $105b, Stripe $78b, Databricks $44b08:23 | 2024 Pre-IPO Stock Vintage Index week performance- www.agdillon.com/index for pdf with constituents level performance by year- 2024 Vintage Index top contributors since inception: Rippling +107%, Anduril +56%, Revolut +56%, Klarna +45%, Epic Games +37%- Key metric averages for all Vintage Indexes 5 years old or older…444% cumulative return since inception61% realized, distributed to investors5.44 TVPI; 3.31 DPI, 2.13 RVPI4.1 years to return the fund