Matt Levine, Columnist

Landing on the Moon Won’t Be Easy for Unicorns

The successful lunar startup will need a good rocket and a favorable tax plan.

Rocket science and regulation.

Hulton Archive

Well, here is a story about moon unicorns:

There is something satisfying about the fact that the path to conquering the moon runs through Luxembourg. Sure there are lots of real physical engineering problems to be solved, in putting your startup on the moon. You have to build a rocket and fly it to the moon. But there are problems of financial engineering, regulatory engineering, tax engineering to be solved as well. You have to build a legal entity and put it in a friendly regulatory jurisdiction.