Today I Became a Co-Owner of SpaceX

Today SpaceX went public. Ticker SPCX, on the Nasdaq. $135 per share, $75 billion raised — the largest IPO in history. Bigger than Saudi Aramco. And as of this morning, anyone could join.

So that's what I did. I put a considerable part of my savings into SpaceX. In one go. Not because I think I can predict next week's share price — nobody can — but because I believe in this company in a way I feel about almost no other company.

There's a category of companies that make money, and a much smaller category that shifts reality itself. SpaceX is in the second one. Rockets that land and fly again. Ten thousand satellites delivering internet to places no cable will ever reach. A Starship program working toward Mars — seriously, with a straight back. These are things that were science fiction in my childhood. Not as a metaphor, but literally: they existed only in movies. SpaceX is the company pulling that into reality, piece by piece.

And then there's Elon. I believe in him enormously, and for a specific reason. Elon is the kind of person you do not want on the other side of the table in business — ask the car industry, ask the old aerospace sector. You want him on your side. That's why I think it's so good that he pours so much of his energy into SpaceX. Because in space, he isn't competing one-on-one with someone on Earth. He's competing against the gigantic void itself — against everything that doesn't exist yet. That seems to me the most pleasant form of Elon for everyone: all that drive, aimed at breaking open possibilities instead of beating a neighbor.

For me personally, this is a special moment. For years, SpaceX was the company you could only watch from the outside. Private, closed, accessible only to funds and insiders. I had wanted to own a piece of it long before today — it simply wasn't possible. Today it was. Alongside Tesla, I'm now a co-owner of SpaceX, and in one stroke I feel ten times better about my portfolio than I did yesterday.

This IPO matters beyond my own position, too. It breaks open a new layer of funding for a company that was already more impressive on less money than most science fiction films could show. What will they do now that the whole world can help finance them? I don't know. Nobody knows. That's exactly why I'll be following it closely.

Finally: congratulations. To Elon, and to the entire SpaceX team that worked relentlessly on this for years — the people who laid the welds, wrote the software, ran the launches while the world still doubted. This is your day. I'm glad that, as of today, I get to be a very small part of it.

Disclaimer: I built a position in SpaceX (SPCX) today. This is not investment advice. It's the honest story of someone who waited years for this.