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SpaceX rolled out the agreement one week before the firm’s stock is set to start trading on the Nasdaq exchange
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In the first months of 2026, SpaceX spent $2.413 billion buying stock from xAI employees and $1.933 billion buying out existing shareholders.
Key facts
- In the first months of 2026, SpaceX spent $2.413 billion buying stock from xAI employees and $1.933 billion buying out existing shareholders
- Three companies, SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are targeting valuations between $852 billion and two trillion, so they can extract somewhere between $60 and $75 billion each from public markets
- On May 15 2026, Jose Luis Bautista, a 25-year-old contractor from Donna, Texas, was killed due to an improperly secured beam at SpaceX’s Starbase complex
- The entire US IPO market combined raised about $45 billion in 2025
Summary
What interesting times they live in. On May 15 2026, Jose Luis Bautista, a 25-year-old contractor from Donna, Texas, was killed due to an improperly secured beam at SpaceX’s Starbase complex. OSHA’s maximum penalty for the crane violations was $115,850, roughly three minutes of SpaceX’s Q1 2026 revenue. SpaceX, which includes Twitter, Starlink and Grok and will probably soon include Tesla, is itself a time capsule of this moment. In the last quarter, the space portion of SpaceX only accounted for 13% of $SPCX revenue. Last month, the reporter wrote about the increasingly ponzi scheme nature of the stock market. Nasdaq and other indexes have changed their rules specifically to fast-track entry for SpaceX, and S&P Dow Jones Indices has proposed eliminating profitability requirements, with implementation expected the week before SpaceX is listed. Nasdaq has already changed its rules to fast-track entry, and S&P Dow Jones Indices has proposed waiving its profitability requirement for megacaps, with implementation expected around 8 June.