Musk digs up 10 failed Starlink doomer predictions from 2021-2023 via Grok
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-25
Elon Musk retweeted a Grok-compiled list of 10 bearish Starlink predictions from 2021-2023 — including "another satellite flop" (Light Reading), "may not be financially viable" (Techdirt), 1M users vs 20M projected (Reuters/WSJ), and outright "it's a grift" takes — using them to highlight how wrong the skepticism proved.
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