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SpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut, making Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
MicroWavehttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/12/spacex-stock-price-ipo-spcx
SpaceX made the biggest stock market debut in history on Friday after nearly two and a half decades as a private company.
Public trading began around midday with a starting share price of $150, which quickly jumped by a double digit percentage and sent the company’s valuation above $2tn, where it remained through market close.
The company’s initial public offering made the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire.
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Good job elon. You won capitalism. you can stop now. thanks.
Every billionaires has won capitalism
A billion dollars is enough it retire on if you live frugally but a trillion is definitely nice in case world conditions change.
This fucking sucks. It just give the idea to all those billionaire that it’s possible and a thing to strive for.
I think “get even more money” has always been a thing they strive for, but I get what you mean.
I had to come here after foolishly looking at news articles via my FB feed, just to get some sane takes. I’m hoping it’s mostly bots, but the number of comments online praising him is sickening. Deluded sycophants and bootlickers are seemingly everywhere. I have stronger negative feelings toward these pricks than I do Musk himself, which is saying something.
The sycophants are definitely out there but I personally believe most of those comments are bots.
Random_Character_AFor Elon to have Trillion dollars, wouldn’t it require everyone in western world to immediately sell their car and buy spaceX. Otherwise it’s just monopoly money.
It’s extrapolated money. If a share is worth $130, and there are 7700000000 shares, then the company is worth a trillion dollars. But if all the shares we to be sold at the same time, almost nobody would buy them at the $130 price. Instead, the few who would buy these would do so at a near zero price, thus making the company be worth $0.
It’s almost like Bitcoin, only instead of the zero inherent value of Bitcoin, companies have a little bit of value behind the extremely bloated stock prices.
Don’t get the Elon glazing. They call him the “most successful African American entrepreneur”. But is manipulating old people’s pensions to fund your AI slop machine such a genius and revolutionary move? Maybe Americans just have a different definition for “success”.
Here’s to my solvency hopefully outlasting this madness.
Is there a sane index fund somewhere that avoids ecocidal bullshit, fraud, cronyism and genocide?
Is there a sane index fund somewhere that avoids ecocidal bullshit, fraud, cronyism and genocide?
This is an antithesis. Even if such an index existed, no institution would be willing to fund it, making it irrelevant. Can’t make money without stealing it from somewhere.
They say the first trillion is the hardest.
At an average return of 7 percent – extremely conservative in this day and age and in the context of the mega rich – having 1 000 billion dollars will make you 70 billion dollars in a year without lifting a finger.
So yeah.
seathruIf Musk sold every single thing he owns today, and then paid his debts; would he have anywhere near a trillion? Because if not, that’s a weird title. Or does trillionaire just mean “has a trillion dollar credit line”?
TheDemonBuerIf Musk sold every single thing he owns today, and then paid his debts; would he have anywhere near a trillion?
There’s no way he would be able to sell all of his corporate stock at once. It would be breaking, headline news if Musk was trying to sell all his stock, and it would almost certainly cause the share price of Tesla and SpaceX stock to plummet.
The only way Musk would ever have $1 trillion of actual, liquid dollars would be if the US had a Zimbabwe runaway inflation scenario.
Looking at the guy they’re replacing JPow with and the AI bailout on top of some other timebombs like auto loans… Zimbabwe seems likely
does trillionaire just mean “has a trillion dollar credit line”?
I mean, that’s a pretty good position for him to be in. Probably better than having a trillion dollars in cash or hard assets.
Not if the vast majority of that is already debt you can’t back up. But I’m really just complaining about semantics. Seems wrong to call someone a trillionaire that couldn’t actually put a trillion dollars on a poker table.
couldn’t actually put a trillion dollars on a poker table.
Thats not how net worth works….. even for normal people, money on a poker table is an idiotic measure of net worth…
Is it? Basing it off imaginary stock market numbers sounds idiotic to me. And that is a hill I will die on.
even if you if you ignore stocks…. i own a home that is appraised by the city and taxed at $300k (i’m not talking about an inflated valuation by a real estate agent here), but i only have $5k in liquid cash to bring to the casino floor… you’re telling me that my net worth as a person is only $5k? if i were to apply for a business loan, the bank should assess my net worth as $5k?
i’m really glad the real world doesn’t work that….
What’s the debt on the house? 0$? If it is actually salable for $300k, then net worth would be $305k. Owe $200k on it? $105k net worth. That’s what I meant by “sold every single thing he owns today, and then paid his debts”. Actual tangible assets.
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I’m GLAD we’re Focusing on Important things like
Helping STARVING Americans!Helping STARVING Children!CHANGING the Rules of the Stock Market to FORCE your Retirement to fund Elon Musk’s Trillionaire STATUS!But it gets better. This is only the pump! I can’t wait for the dump!
Musk cares about starving children. He made sure we didn’t give government money to them so they could starve better. He also made sure kids sick with treatable diseases could die faster. Efficiencies!
S&P rejected the rule changes. Only the nasdaq funds are forced to buy. And they wont buy much since the float is so low
Yes, musk is a shithead, and spacex is wildly overpriced, but dont believe the doom and gloom you read
And given that this garbage isn’t profitable and has no hope of becoming profitable, he’s soon to be the world’s first former trillionaire.
Tesla is long overdue for a 10x reduction in value.
Thats why spacex is planning on buying tesla
No he’ll sell enough to not fall below and leave everyone else’s retirement savings holding the bag. Fucking ghoul.
I fucking hate Musk but in what world is SpaceX unprofitable? If you’re talking about xAI then I’ll agree with you, but with the access to space and starlink/starshield wrapped up in it SpaceX is positioned as the most likely of the AI companies to receive a government bailout when the balloon pops.
Ours?
That’s the reason the S&P 500 index isn’t buying their stock, they’ve got a rule that the company has to be profitable first.
SpaceX has not made a profit. Starlink loses them money, too, partially because using LEO has the very wasteful con where the amount of drag makes them fall back to earth.
After he dies, I really hope the last name Musk becomes as stigmatized as the last name Goebbels
“Musk” doesn’t rhyme with any body parts though.
Remind me in 90 days
🎵 Elon and Donald,
🎵Hanging from a tree,
🎵S-W-I-N-I-G-I-N-G
From their fucking neck!
Fucking disgusting.
The way all the news outlets report on this like it is a good thing someone hoards so much wealth. Just ugh.
It’s basically scrooge mcduck at this point.