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SuperBroIpoDystopia: Some key facts: MM

a record-breaking $135 per share with$1.8T valuation

To make that math make sense, analysts estimate the company needs to grow its sales by 50% every single year for the next decade

SpaceX lost  $4.9B last year

Wall Street is Being Treated Like Order-Takers: Musk pre-set the IPO price strictly at $135 and dictating exactly which investors got allocations. This forced major investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to act as glorified order-takers without even knowing their exact compensation beforehand

Saudi Aramco $1.7T; Alibaba: $237B; Facebook $118B

Nasdaq aggressively pushed through "fast-entry" rule changes specifically to allow mega-caps like SpaceX to bypass the traditional year of seasoning and enter the Nasdaq-100 in just 15 trading days. This forces passive index funds to buy in blindly to avoid tracking errors

Meme stocker bros: $100B in share orders

30% of $75B offering is earmarked for individual retail investors. This effectively shifts late-stage, hyper-inflated valuation risk away from institutions and onto the public.

BlackRock $5B

Institutional investors admitted that when they bought into SpaceX privately, they were given high-level revenue figures but were denied a copy of the actual balance sheet—an unprecedented lack of transparency for a company raising tens of billions

University of Washington more than 10% of its $17B in assets

UNC about 10%

SpaceX will make $75B in proceeds

Saudi Aramco $26B; Alibaba $22B

Elon Musk’s Absolute Voting Tyranny (80% of voting power)

personal net worth has officially skyrocketed past $1.1T

SpaceX’s foundational scale was built on the back of the American public, securing over $20 billion in U.S. federal government contracts to fund its rocket development

Antonio Gracias: personally lent Musk $1M to keep him afloat; his PE firm Valor gave $76M

That $1M lifeline and early institutional backing from 2008 have compounded into what analysts are calling the most lucrative return on a personal favor i