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John Carmack's other company, Armadillo Aerospace, may soon be cash flow positive. They have picked up a sponsor, NVIDIA, are in a good position to win some cash at the X-Prize Cup, and have lined up a few customers.<br /><br />From their latest posting:<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>NVIDIA is Armadillo Aerospace’s official sponsor for the X-Prize Cup events this year.<br />...<br />There is a chance at this point that I may have written the last personal check I need to for Armadillo. This sponsorship will cover all of our expenses through the X-Prize Cup, and I expect to come away from that with some prize money. If we run the table with first prize wins in both categories, we will be doing great. It still wouldn’t cover all the money I have put in over the last five years, but it should be plenty to take us through the commercialization of the current technologies. We have several customers ready to pay for flights even below the “man to 100km” goal of the suborbital space tourism market, so I don’t think we are too far off. If we don’t pocket the big prize, we will still carry on at our current pace, but if we get the extra money we will be stepping things up by bringing more of the team on full time.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=331