Cathie Wood Sees $1.5M Bitcoin and $10T SpaceX Revenue — Can Either Happen?

Key Takeaways

• Cathie Wood has backed a scenario in which SpaceX's Starship business generates $10 trillion in annual revenue by 2030.

• ARK Invest's separate Bitcoin bull case targets $1.5 million by the same year.

• Both forecasts depend on adoption reaching levels far beyond anything demonstrated today.

Cathie Wood now has two extraordinary 2030 forecasts on the table: a $1.5 million Bitcoin price and $10 trillion in annual revenue from SpaceX's Starship.

The ARK Invest founder's latest prediction suggests each Starship launch could eventually unlock approximately $1 billion in revenue.

Wood then applied that estimate to Elon Musk's ambition of completing 10,000 Starship flights annually, producing the eye-watering $10 trillion figure.

Musk responded that the scenario was "not impossible."

How Does Starship Reach $10 Trillion?

Cathie Wood's forecast is based primarily on Starlink.

ARK researcher Sam Korus estimates that Starlink currently generates approximately $19 million in annual connectivity revenue for every terabit per second of network capacity.

A Starship loaded with next-generation Starlink V3 satellites could reportedly add around 61 terabits per second of capacity.

Cathie Wood laid out the calculation in an X post, connecting the potential revenue from each launch with Musk's planned flight frequency.