Only one US company built at-scale manufacturing muscle this century and it is Tesla
Founder kept R&D off the government leash and rode price-performance, the Nvidia playbook that compounds
Stevens stakes that Starship full reuse collapses launch cost from $50,000/kg to under $20/kg, a price-performance curve no cost-plus rival can follow. Lower marginal cost compounds into a wider valuation lead, and he separately names SpaceX as the category winner you could not afford to miss.
Decision advantage is the third offset and Palantir's software sits at its center as defense rearms
Old primes are politically-spread, low-margin, slow programs losing share to software-defined new primes