One Man Will Control the Pipes of the Internet's Next Frontier — That's the Real SpaceX Story
The biggest stock listing in history isn't really about who gets rich on Friday — it's about how much of orbit, and the internet beamed down from it, ends up under the control of a single person. With SpaceX going public at $135 a share and roughly $75bn raised, the company that already launches most of the world's satellites is now being valued like critical infrastructure, because that's increasingly what it is.
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The world's biggest IPO is being read as a money story, but the durable significance is governance: a piece of infrastructure as essential as orbital internet is being capitalized at trillion-dollar scale while remaining under near-total single-person control, and rival nations are now scrambling to fund their own answer.
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