You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO

One thing that seems certain about the SpaceX IPO is that it’s going to make lots of people very, very rich. Another is that you probably won’t be one of them. At least not any time soon.

There’s extraordinary interest in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-AI company’s public debut, and for good reason. SpaceX was already the leading private space company in the world, its rockets shuttling astronauts to the International Space Station and its Starlink satellites providing internet connectivity to millions of people around the world. Its recent acquisition of xAI means it is also the first of the big three AI startups in the US to go public, with Anthropic and OpenAI following close behind. The company raised $75 billion, valuing it at $1.75 trillion, which would make it the biggest IPO ever by a sizable margin.

Like all IPOs, though, stratospheric wealth will likely be reserved for those who...

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