Hooray for Nazi rocket company, bad for everyone else.
No-Surprise9411 on
The only source in the article for this are
“SpaceX’s management and advisers are pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026, said some of the people, who declined to be identified because the matter is confidential.”
Until Musk confirms this I’d take it with a massive grain of salt, because going public with SpaceX would be in direct contradiction to what he‘s been saying of the matter for the last 15 years.
Cheetotiki on
I wonder if there’s any concern about talent attrition from the many newly-minted millionaires at SpaceX? Presumably some lock periods?
Fabulous_Soup_521 on
That valuation number seems fanciful. It would also depend on how much of their revenue is independent of government contracts.
Kapustamanninn on
This would not be a wise move for their mars mission at all. Investors would push for more small short term gains within the satellite or near earth orbit than the long term financial gains of mars colonization. All investors would choose short term big gains over the long term ones.
flowersonthewall72 on
I swear every time I see this headline the valuation goes up. They’re just going to keep putting out headlines till it reaches a a gazillion. I can just picture them all in a room like dr evil…
andrewbrocklesby on
Why does this keep getting reported when it’s based on heresay and Musk has denied it?
muzik4machines on
the muskrat is totally crazy
CautiousRice on
That would make more sense than Tesla’s valuation but not a lot more sense.
OlympusMons94 on
Publicly selling shares to raise “far above $30 billion” would still only be s small fraction of a $1.5 trillion valuation. The vast majority of the company’s equity (and probably all voting rights) would not become publicly traded. Musk himself owns a supermajority of voting control in SpaceX (but only ~40% equity). He would still have absolute control of the direction of the company (legal/regulatory implications of going public notwithstanding).
The main downside to going public with such a small percentage of the company would be the increased reporting requirements and oversight. For those reasons, Musk has repeatedly expressed regret and frustration with Tesla being a public corporation. So it would be a surprise if this news about SpaceX is true.
SpaceX (a private C corporation) already has many shareholders, including current and former employees, and a limited number of external investors such as Alphabet, Fidelity, and some vengure capital companies. Fidelity owns over 10% equity in SoaceX, and Google another several percent. As a private corporation, going abover 2000 shareholders (excluding employees who receive shares as part of their compensation) would trigger SEC reporting requirements like a publicly traded corporation.
ApprehensiveSize7662 on
Lmaooo launch services were only vauled at 10b in 2024. For the whole industry.
B4SSF4C3 on
Gotta get that bag just before the competition gets off the ground.
enzo32ferrari on
Feel like they’ll spinoff Starlink as a subsidiary or something and IPO that instead
Vaestmannaeyjar on
I’m not putting money anywhere near Musk’s businesses at this point. Guy is so far gone I do not think he’s sane enough to warrant investment at this point.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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Hooray for Nazi rocket company, bad for everyone else.
The only source in the article for this are
“SpaceX’s management and advisers are pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026, said some of the people, who declined to be identified because the matter is confidential.”
Until Musk confirms this I’d take it with a massive grain of salt, because going public with SpaceX would be in direct contradiction to what he‘s been saying of the matter for the last 15 years.
I wonder if there’s any concern about talent attrition from the many newly-minted millionaires at SpaceX? Presumably some lock periods?
That valuation number seems fanciful. It would also depend on how much of their revenue is independent of government contracts.
This would not be a wise move for their mars mission at all. Investors would push for more small short term gains within the satellite or near earth orbit than the long term financial gains of mars colonization. All investors would choose short term big gains over the long term ones.
I swear every time I see this headline the valuation goes up. They’re just going to keep putting out headlines till it reaches a a gazillion. I can just picture them all in a room like dr evil…
Why does this keep getting reported when it’s based on heresay and Musk has denied it?
the muskrat is totally crazy
That would make more sense than Tesla’s valuation but not a lot more sense.
Publicly selling shares to raise “far above $30 billion” would still only be s small fraction of a $1.5 trillion valuation. The vast majority of the company’s equity (and probably all voting rights) would not become publicly traded. Musk himself owns a supermajority of voting control in SpaceX (but only ~40% equity). He would still have absolute control of the direction of the company (legal/regulatory implications of going public notwithstanding).
The main downside to going public with such a small percentage of the company would be the increased reporting requirements and oversight. For those reasons, Musk has repeatedly expressed regret and frustration with Tesla being a public corporation. So it would be a surprise if this news about SpaceX is true.
SpaceX (a private C corporation) already has many shareholders, including current and former employees, and a limited number of external investors such as Alphabet, Fidelity, and some vengure capital companies. Fidelity owns over 10% equity in SoaceX, and Google another several percent. As a private corporation, going abover 2000 shareholders (excluding employees who receive shares as part of their compensation) would trigger SEC reporting requirements like a publicly traded corporation.
Lmaooo launch services were only vauled at 10b in 2024. For the whole industry.
Gotta get that bag just before the competition gets off the ground.
Feel like they’ll spinoff Starlink as a subsidiary or something and IPO that instead
I’m not putting money anywhere near Musk’s businesses at this point. Guy is so far gone I do not think he’s sane enough to warrant investment at this point.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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|EELV|[Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Expendable_Launch_Vehicle)|
|[FAA-AST](/r/Space/comments/1piit3q/stub/nt6j0xh “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration [Administrator for Space Transportation](http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/)|
|[Isp](/r/Space/comments/1piit3q/stub/nt6fyzz “Last usage”)|Specific impulse (as explained by [Scott Manley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnisTeYLLgs) on YouTube)|
| |Internet Service Provider|
|L2|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 2 ([Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s) video explanation)|
| |Paywalled section of the NasaSpaceFlight forum|
|[L3](/r/Space/comments/1piit3q/stub/nt6j0xh “Last usage”)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 3 of a two-body system, opposite L2|
|NRHO|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit|
|[NRO](/r/Space/comments/1piit3q/stub/nt6g8jk “Last usage”)|(US) National Reconnaissance Office|
| |Near-Rectilinear Orbit, see NRHO|
|[NSSL](/r/Space/comments/1piit3q/stub/nt6ep4u “Last usage”)|National Security Space Launch, formerly EELV|
|Jargon|Definition|
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|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1piit3q/stub/ntcz64a “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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Elon musk just confirmed this reporting on Twitter.
This rumor just gonna keep increasing until spaceX is worth 1billion trillion