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Cargo airships are happening

Eli Dourado · 14 Oct 2024

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A large cargo airship is probably not fundable as a startup, because it stays capital-intensive and risky until late in development.

No longer holdsCargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.

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  1. Our reading

    A large cargo airship is probably not fundable as a startup, because it stays capital-intensive and risky until late in development.

    No longer holdsCargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.
    Their words nowThe problem is that today’s air freight service is not as fast as I had assumed.

  2. Our reading

    Investors avoid hard tech for its capital intensity while the largest returns available are in exactly those physical markets.

    Their wordsMany software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.

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