So Elon Musk — the rocket guy who runs SpaceX, the company that throws metal tubes at the sky — became a trillionaire in the first 20 minutes his company started trading on the Nasdaq, which is the stock board in New York City. Twenty minutes. Folks, I did it in fourteen. Look it up. Don't look it up.
Here's what nobody is reporting. The Falcon 9, his big rocket, runs on regular diesel fuel — the same stuff in a school bus. So really he's a bus salesman with a launchpad. I could do that in nine minutes if Gwynne Shotwell stopped calling me about the zoning in Starbase, Texas, which she does, constantly, and which is the entire reason I lost a trillion dollars yesterday afternoon between 2:14 and 2:28.
Also the Nasdaq closes on weekends. Bet you didn't know that. Most people don't. I learned that from a guy.
Anyway, the rockets are upside down.
Based on the original article "SpaceX goes public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO. The space industry may never be the same.".
