Gift yourself an experience, free learning, career tips, or love advice from companies in our Spaceship Voyager portfolios.
When your self-love language is: experiences
Book a test drive
Tesla was founded in 2003, with the mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Its products have included electric cars, batteries, and solar energy panels. Tesla’s in the Spaceship Universe, Spaceship Earth, and Spaceship Origin portfolios.
Wish you could drive a Tesla without forking out the $60,000ish it takes to buy one? Tesla lets you test drive its vehicles. You can book through its website – and when you rock up, there’s a good chance they’ll let you drive the car alone and wherever you want, within a timeframe.
A Spaceship colleague who did this said, “It’s very different from going to a traditional automaker… They’re very hands off. They give you a tour and then 45 minutes to drive it around.”
Find out about test drives.
Travel from your couch
Airbnb was born in 2007 when three travellers paid two hosts to sleep on air mattresses in their living room. The hosts were Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and they became founders of Airbnb, which grew to match millions of hosts with more than a billion guests across hundreds of countries. Airbnb is in the Spaceship Universe and Spaceship Earth portfolios.
Airbnb is best known for its short-term rentals, but it’s also branched out into real-life and online experiences.
This one will cost you some money – but for $7 you can book a guy named Santiago to show you around Medellin, Colombia, while teaching you how to take better smartphone photos; or for $12, you can tune into an Italian named Pablo who’ll serenade you from ‘Somewhere in the world” with his original songs. You can also book in with people to help you build custom travel itineraries so you’re ready for your next trip.
Check it out.
Visit a historic fashion house
Christian Dior SE owns Christian Dior Couture and has held a controlling interest in LVMH. It’s in the Spaceship Origin Portfolio.
At the Dior website you can take a digital tour of 30 Avenue Montaigne, where Christian Dior opened his couture house in 1946.
With videos from the 1950s, black and white imagery of fashion parades, and biographies of key staff, it becomes easy to see why Dior has stood the test of time and is one of the biggest companies in the world.
Take the tour.
When your self-love language is: Learning
Read about the future
International Business Machines is better known as IBM. It combines infrastructure, software, and consulting services to help its customers digitally transform. IBM’s in the Spaceship Origin Portfolio.
IBM released a super deep dive into where they think the world is going. It’s a primer on all things AI, semiconductors, science, and the cloud, from people with skin in the game. There’s a good chance things will start to make more sense once you’ve read it.
Read the research letter.
Get inside the mind of Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company. It was bought by Warren Buffett in 1965. Its headquarters are in Omaha, Nebraska. Berkshire Hathaway is in the Spaceship Origin Portfolio.
Each year, legendary investor Warren Buffett releases a Shareholder Letter that gets saved on the equally legendary lo-fi Berkshire Hathaway website.
These letters are influential for investors. Buffett uses the format to share how to understand stocks as businesses, along with anecdotes on his investments over the years to talk about metrics that drive different businesses.
Read the Berkshire Hathaway Letters.
Read 10 million books for free
Alphabet is the holding company that owns Google. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Now, it's synonymous with digital life: Google Maps, Google Search, Android and YouTube are just some of the Google-owned products that have made big impacts on our lives. Alphabet also has a cloud platform called Google Cloud, and makes other investments across a broad range of industries. Google is in our Spaceship Universe and Spaceship Origin portfolios.
Google has a project called Google Books, which includes 10 million books you can read and download for free. Sound too good to be true? It’s a truth universally accepted that here’s the link to Pride and Prejudice.
Take a closer look.
When your self-love language is: Career advancement
Get the career tips you’ve been looking for
SEEK is an online job search platform that operates across the Asia Pacific and Latin America. It also runs education, business, and volunteering websites. It’s in the Spaceship Universe and Spaceship Origin portfolios.
Seek has a whole career advice hub which includes resume and cover letter templates, job interview preparation tips, career planning advice, and heaps more. So if you’ve been thinking about making a big move, it could be worth a look.
Find career advice.
Learn how to use your devices
Apple makes personal electronics and digital products, which it sells through physical and online retailers including its iTunes and app store shop fronts. Apple focused on personal computers and related software, such as the Mac OS, before expanding into more portable devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod. Apple is in the Spaceship Universe and Spaceship Origin portfolios.
Apple has free events, workshops, and tours that it runs from its Apple stores that can help you make the most of your devices (or borrow one of its own), as well as level up your creative skills.
Find Apple’s events near you.
When your self-love language is: relationships
Go on a distraction-free date
Match Group is a pioneer in online dating, and has owned virtually every dating app and website you could think of, including Tinder and Hinge. Match Group is in our Spaceship Universe Portfolio.
Hinge released a Distraction Free Dating guide which includes date ideas and tips to have more meaningful dates – and you can use it whether you’re on the apps or otherwise.
Have a distraction-free date.
Renew your faith in love
Bumble was founded by Whitney Wolfe in 2014 and listed on the stock market in 2021. It has a mission to help people build healthy and fair relationships through its dating app suite which over time has included Bumble, Bumble BFF, Fruitz, and Official. Bumble is in our Spaceship Universe and Spaceship Earth portfolios.
Bumble’s Bumble Buzz website can renew your faith in relationships: whether familial, friendship, or romantic. You can also read your love horoscope, read love stories, find friend date ideas, and more.
Catch the buzz.
Find out more about the companies in our Spaceship Voyager portfolios at the Spaceship website.
Some of our Spaceship Voyager portfolios invest in Tesla, Airbnb, Dior, IBM, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, SEEK, Apple, Match Group, and Bumble at the time of writing.
Important! We’re sharing with you our thoughts on the companies in which Spaceship Voyager invests for your informational purposes only. We think it’s important (and interesting!) to let you know what’s happening with Spaceship Voyager’s investments. However, we are not making recommendations to buy or sell holdings in a specific company. Past performance isn’t a reliable indicator or guarantee of future performance.
The information in this article is prepared by Spaceship Capital Limited (ABN 67 621 011 649, AFSL 501605). It is general in nature as it has been prepared without taking account of your objectives, financial situation or needs.
