SpaceX IPO — Nasdaq Bell Speech June 12, 2026 As SpaceX goes public, Elon Musk speaks before ringing the Nasdaq opening bell — recalling his early doubts the company would survive and restating the goal of making life multiplanetary. The largest IPO ever, valuing SpaceX near $1.77 trillion.
As SpaceX goes public, Elon Musk speaks before ringing the Nasdaq opening bell — recalling his early doubts the company would survive and restating the goal of making life multiplanetary. The largest IPO ever, valuing SpaceX near $1.77 trillion.
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Four or five thousand people, thank you so much.
Elon Musk
Gave I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all, to be clear. In fact I told people this, I said, look, we're probably going to fail, but we should give it a try because if we don't, if there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly space faring civilization. While the other aerospace companies, they built good rockets and everything, they were simply not pursuing the technology that's necessary to make life multi planetary, To make Star Trek, to make the exciting science fiction futures that we've read about real. And that's what SpaceX is all about, is to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring Future for everyone. SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars and ultimately beyond. And I'm confident at this point that with the incredible team that we have here at SpaceX that we will do that for you. There are always problems on Earth. There are always problems on Earth. There are always things that we wish to be better, that we want to solve here on Earth and we should solve them. But there also have to be things that get you excited about the future, that make you glad to wake up in the morning because you can't wait to see what happens next. And that's the future that SpaceX wants to bring to you.
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It's SA, It's. Elon founded this company in 2002 initially to build rockets and spaceships that will take humans to Mars, the moon and even beyond. We've not quite gotten to Mars. We're almost at the moon. With the merger, the acquisition of xai, we now as a group own the largest coherent gigawatt class compute on the planet, which will help us truth, seek and understand the universe. So congratulations to all of us for that. Everyone said we could never get to orbit it, check. But it was a little rocket. Then it's, everyone said, well you can't get a real.