{"id":79777,"date":"2026-07-11T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-soars-in-stock-market-debut-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:02:34","slug":"elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-soars-in-stock-market-debut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-soars-in-stock-market-debut-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk becomes world&#8217;s first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SpaceX&#8217;s valuation is largely based on optimism about its potential future earnings, as opposed to financial results it has demonstrated so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is currently not profitable, meaning it loses more money from its operations than it makes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company lost more than $9bn in 2025 and 2026 so far, according to its financial filings, due to its huge spending on AI and other infrastructure investments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The biggest focus of its business is the manufacture and launch of rockets with reusable parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SpaceX also manufactures and launches Starlink internet satellites, and through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq6vnrye06po\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">this year&#8217;s acquisition of xAI<\/a>, another company Musk owned and operated, SpaceX entered into the AI business, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SpaceX has said it will use the money to &#8220;fuel its growth strategy&#8221; around rockets, satellites for its growing Starlink internet service, and AI, including speculative plans to build data centres in orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nancy Tengler, who heads Laffer Tengler Investments and put in an order to buy shares of SpaceX, called the company&#8217;s AI business a &#8220;cash incinerator&#8221; despite Musk&#8217;s ambitions for the segment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important to take some of the projections with a grain of salt,&#8221; Tengler said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nevertheless, she is buying into the company for its long-term potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our investment horizon is three, five, and even ten years,&#8221; Tengler said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is also expecting SpaceX to merge with Tesla in the next two years, potentially creating a company worth more than either one on its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the ambitions of SpaceX are currently more lofty than satellites or mergers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As stated in its IPO prospectus, the mission of SpaceX is: &#8220;To build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SpaceX even said that its future growth and success is based in large part on building what it refers to as the &#8220;lunar economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essentially, such an economy would entail getting people and cargo to the moon and Mars, something that would need to be a regular occurrence for a true economy to develop around it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SpaceX admits that it is unsure such a thing will ever succeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Many of our initiatives\u2026 involve significant technical complexity, unproven technologies or technologies that do not exist, and such initiatives may not achieve commercial viability,&#8221; the company wrote in its prospectus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gypy3wwl7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX&#8217;s valuation is largely based on optimism about its potential future earnings, as opposed to financial results it has demonstrated so far. It is currently not profitable, meaning it loses more money from its operations than it makes. 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