Elon Musk is a consummate businessman that won’t let personal feelings get in the way
of a productive partnership. Despite his feelings about the co-founder of Microsoft, Musk
is teaming up with the biggest software company in the world!
Join us as we explore Musk’s insane new partnership with Microsoft that changes
everything!
You have probably heard of Musk and Gates’ public feud. For example, while Gates
acknowledged Tesla’s role in pushing electric vehicles but decided to buy an electric
Porsche instead of a Tesla, Musk commented, “My conversations with Gates have been
underwhelming to be honest.”
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Even on the issue of Tesla and its stock, the two billionaires don’t always see eye to
eye. Gates thinks electric trucks like the Semi are not viable, and Musk fired back by
claiming Gates was shorting Tesla. Gates has been asked directly whether he shorted
Tesla more than once, but he has been evasive with an answer. He even came close to
admitting to shorting Tesla in one of his replies!
Gates also doesn’t believe in projects which take the human civilization outside of Earth,
in direct opposition to Musk’s ambition to take people to Mars!
And of course, Musk is not above trolling Microsoft itself, which he recently took a shot
at on Twitter:
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Although he followed up with praise for one of Microsoft’s numerous products:
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But all that will not stop Musk from partnering with the very company that has made
Gates one of the wealthiest persons in the world. The companies Musk is associated
with have a couple of partnerships with Microsoft that change everything!
The first partnership is between Musk’s fast-growing Starlink business and the software
giant. Microsoft, which is currently the biggest company globally in terms of market
capitalization, is a big player in the cloud business.
The company has been on a roll recently, lining up lucrative deals for its Azure business
left and right. In the last financial quarter, sales of Azure and other cloud services
increased 50 percent, far more than analysts predicted. Cloud sales crossed 20 billion
dollars for the first time!
But Microsoft is just starting, with the deal it has signed with SpaceX that will change
everything! This giant leap in cloud computing involves a partnership with SpaceX’s
satellite internet business, Starlink!
Ironically, Musk started Starlink solely to raise money for his space-traveling ambitions!
He thinks the business can generate 50 billion dollars a year, money he will use to build
and operate rockets that will take colonizers to Mars and even beyond!
SpaceX will put satellites in low earth orbit, which will beam internet connectivity to
people on Earth. The internet service will have fast download and upload speeds with
little latency.
Starlink is in beta, but this is not your average beta program as it already has more than
100,000 paying users in more than a dozen countries!
SpaceX sells a connecting dish for $500 and charges 99 dollars per month, with a
single payment plan. Musk has promised the beta program will end this year, and more
people will be welcome. His company recently got a breakthrough that allows it to make
the dishes cheaper and is still working on it, making it even cheaper to reduce the loss it
absorbs on each dish sale.
SpaceX currently has the capacity to make 5,000 dishes per week, and there is no
shortage of customers, with more than 700,000 that have shown interest in the service
so far.
It has also put more than 1700 satellites in orbit already, with plans to send up much
more so it can cover the whole Earth.
The Starlink satellites are made in SpaceX’s facilities in Redmond, Washington.
Starlink, however, is not limited to private use, as SpaceX welcomes business
customers as well. For example, the US military has been trialing it on a limited basis,
and emergency services have used it while fighting wildfires in Washington state.
This is what Microsoft wants to leverage to push its Azure business further!
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