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But he is just 1 of 4,400 SpaceX employees becoming millionaires today.
SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX, priced at $135 per share and valued at $1.77 trillion.
The offering raised $75 billion and drew more than $250 billion in investor demand, more than three times oversubscribed.
More than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees are projected to become millionaires today. Around 400 of them will hold stakes worth over $100 million each.
To put that in context, the Google IPO in 2004 created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's 2012 listing produced a similar number. SpaceX is doing more than four times both of them in a single day.
And the majority of these people are not founders or executives.
They are engineers, welders, machinists, and launch technicians who took equity over cash and held it for years.
Juan Hernandez moved from Mexico and learned to weld for the money.
He joined SpaceX in 2015 earning $28 an hour. When he went full time, the company gave him $10,000 worth of stock. He held it, bought more through payroll deductions, and sold a small portion in 2020 to buy property in Texas.
His remaining shares are worth $880,000 today.
Trevor Hise joined as a launch engineer straight out of college in 2011. He spent 12 years accumulating shares through salary, bonuses, and reinvestment. He is 37 years old and walking away with more than $13.5 million.
Gavin Petit started in 2012 on an $80,000 base salary with a small initial grant priced at $13.80 per share. He took every bonus in stock.
He has already paid off his home in Denver from earlier tender offer windows and now holds a stake worth several million dollars.
J. André Lavoie, an engineer who received grants years ago, is sitting on more than $28 million. He is currently in Italy renovating a hotel.
Tom Mueller was SpaceX's first employee, hired in 2002 to build the engines that made all of this possible. He left in 2020 but kept his equity.
This week he said: "Elon always said that your salary is one thing, but it's the equity that's gonna be worth something. That day is here."
This is what SpaceX's compensation model actually looked like from the beginning. The company paid below market salaries and made up the difference in equity at every level of the organisation, not just at the top.
Stock options vested over four to six years. Workers could buy additional shares at a 15% discount through a company purchase plan.
Early option grants were priced below $2 per share. Even 2025 grants carried exercise prices between $37 and $42. At $135 today, those positions are sitting at 3x returns minimum.
The physical impact is already visible in Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest cities in the United States, where more than 3,000 SpaceX employees work at Starbase.
Median home prices in the surrounding county have gone from $131,000 in 2014 to over $281,000 today.
More than 100 SpaceX employees pooled their combined holdings, estimated between $1 billion and $5 billion to negotiate institutional level wealth management fees as individual workers.
Today, SPCX opens and 4,400 people find out what years of holding actually pays
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SpaceX debuted on Nasdaq following a record-breaking $75 billion IPO. Significant investor oversubscription and robust Starlink revenue growth act as primary catalysts. Analysts project a volatile next quarter as the market reconciles the $1.77 trillion valuation with current net losses and aggressive capital expenditure on AI and Starship.
trending_upBullish view
Unprecedented IPO Demand and Record Raise: SpaceX raised approximately $75 billion in the largest IPO in history, with investor demand reportedly exceeding $250 billion. The offering was nearly four times oversubscribed, reflecting massive institutional and retail appetite for Elon Musk's vertically integrated aerospace and AI enterprise.Dominant Starlink Recurring Revenue Growth: Starlink remains the primary cash flow driver, with projected 2026 revenue of approximately $20 billion. The service is currently adding over 1 million subscribers monthly, providing a high-margin, recurring revenue stream that analysts compare to software-as-a-service (SaaS) business models.Strategic AI and Space Computing Integration: Analysts have initiated coverage with outperform ratings, highlighting SpaceX as a unique vertically integrated AI firm. With significant investments in AI infrastructure exceeding $12 billion annually, the company is positioned to leverage space-based data centers and Starshield for government and commercial sectors.
trending_downBearish view
Stratospheric Valuation versus Net Losses: Despite high revenue growth, SpaceX reported a GAAP net loss of approximately $4.28 billion in Q1 2026 alone. Critics argue the $1.77 trillion valuation, representing roughly 40x projected 2026 revenue, is disconnected from current fundamentals and relies heavily on future execution milestones.Immense Capital Expenditure and Cash Burn: The company maintains an aggressive investment agenda, with capital spending reaching roughly $20.7 billion last year. Multi-billion-dollar price tags for Starship development and AI compute infrastructure could rapidly drain the cash raised during the IPO if profitability does not scale as expected.Concerns Over Governance and Volatility: Analysts warn of extreme price volatility due to a limited public float of roughly 7% and high retail concentration. Additionally, regulatory scrutiny regarding investor protection and Elon Musk's absolute voting control remains a point of contention for some institutional investors.#SpaceXIPOQuotingStartsNasdaq

In a development that reshapes the relationship between innovation and capital, SpaceX is kicking off its pricing phase in public markets, offering an unconventional model for what can be considered an 'investment asset' in the 21st century. This event doesn't just reflect a company's shift from private to public; it embodies a structural transformation in valuation mechanisms, where value is no longer built solely on current cash flows but on the latent ability to reshape the global economy.