The tycoon Elon Musk assured this Friday that his company SpaceX, which began trading this Friday with record values on Wall Street, seeks to develop the technology necessary to turn humanity into a “multiplanetary civilization” and “make it possible for anyone to one day travel to the Moon, Mars or even beyond the solar system.”
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SpaceX is an American aerospace company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk. Photo:iStock
He also reiterated his intention to “make the exciting science fiction futures we’ve read about become real.”
“There will always be problems on Earth that we will want to solve, but there also have to be things that get you excited about the future and get you up in the morning because you can’t wait to see what happens next“Musk said from Texas.
Regarding SpaceX’s IPO, which will be the largest in history, Musk recalled that when he founded the company he gave it “less than a 10%” chance of success, but he considered it necessary to try because, otherwise, “we will never be a truly spacefaring civilization.”
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“It’s hard to believe that that small company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo (California) is now going public with the largest IPO (Initial Public Offering) in history,” Musk proclaimed.
SpaceX’s CFO and President and COO (c) celebrate. Photo:AFP
“If people had told me this was going to happen, I would have said, ‘man, you must be smoking some really good crack.’because I think this company is going to go bankrupt,'” the tycoon joked.
Hundreds of curious people came this Friday to the headquarters of the Nasdaq stock market indicator, located in the iconic Times Square.to celebrate the IPO of SpaceX with a price of $135 per share, but that It rose to $166 on its first day of trading.
“I think this moment is going to be revolutionary in terms of life changes, in my opinion, (Musk and SpaceX) is the new renaissance. I don’t think any company is going to be able to operate without the needs of SpaceX. And I think that’s what Elon is doing today. “He is providing a service that everyone is going to have to take advantage of in order to operate their own businesses,” said Giovanni Datri, a passerby.
The operation will make Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Photo:Editorial Debate
The company is expected to begin trading throughout the day, once the coordinating bank determines that there is sufficient balance between supply and demand, the first trading price will be set.
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It is expected that the historic stock market operation, with which the company intends to raise more than 75,000 million dollars, make Musk the world’s first trillionaire and kick off a series of big IPOs by AI companies this year.
The president of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, and the company’s financial director, Bret Johnsen, participated in the traditional ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell in New York, while Musk followed the event from Starbase (Texas), accompanied by employees and collaborators of the company.
View of the Nasdaq MarketSite after SpaceX’s IPO. Photo:AFP
Both groups simultaneously celebrated the company’s stock market debut amidst applause and cheers, on a day destined to mark a milestone for the firm.
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SpaceX is the first of a group of large firms related to artificial intelligence to go public led by Anthropic, which has a private valuation of 965 billion, OpenAI (850 billion), both possibly this year, as well as Perplexity (20 billion), in 2028.
