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…
Robert Jenrick told a rally on Monday:
“They say Chancellors are either undertakers or bookies. This one is an ostrich – and when the Chancellor buries his head in the sand, the rest of us, we’re left staring at his you know what.”