Supply chain and wholesale transfer pricing control
"SpaceX and Amazon megaconstellations represent less likely opportunities [for satellite component suppliers] since both have expressed a desire to vertically integrate much of their satellite production"spacenews.com/after-bankrupt…
"SpaceX and Amazon megaconstellations represent less likely opportunities [for satellite component suppliers] since both have expressed a desire to vertically integrate much of their satellite production"spacenews.com/after-bankrupt…
If you take dependencies on others and you have no alternative supplier (ie, what Roger Fisher calls no BATNA) the suppliers can block your success. For example, if you build a rocket and you must source your booster from a single supplier, then that supplier controls your fate.
This is why Musk and Bezos like to make everything their business needs or to have multiple suppliers. They don't want to buy components from traditional sole source suppliers who want prices to remain high. Neither is saying right now: "Oh, we can't get rocket parts from China."
