SpaceX has gone public, having raised a record $75 billion through its IPO. Reuters reports it is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange at $171 per share, rocketing far beyond the expected price of $135. Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire…
Ringing the bell (virtually) as the stock market opened today, Musk said:
“It is certainly hard to believe a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever… I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all…
We want to be able take anyone who wants to go to the Moon, anyone who wants to go to Mars, or anywhere in the solar system… I am confident at this point that with the incredible team that we have here at SpaceX that we will do that for you.”
It is already more highly valued than Walmart. To the Moon…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”