Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after going public in the company’s largest-ever IPO. spacex announced The appointment was made in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha was appointed “to fill the existing vacancy on the Board”…

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SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

SpaceX overtook Amazon to become the world’s fifth most valuable company, with its share price rising 20% ​​on Monday and more than 8% in early trading on Tuesday, giving it a valuation of more than $2.7 trillion. That’s despite Amazon making a $78 billion profit in 2025 on $717 billion in sales last year, while…

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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s no longer led by the same companies. FAANG performed well, but a new acronym is dominating: MANGOS – Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI and SpaceX. Half of that group is going to the public markets in the same window, and it’s…

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SpaceX IPO is Musk ‘referendum,’ say market watchers

Elon Musk at SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas, May 27, 2025. Marvin Joseph | The Washington Post | Getty Images Friday’s hotly anticipated SpaceX public debut could prove a defining moment for capital markets — and be a “referendum” on Elon Musk’s leadership, according to market watchers. Musk’s eye-watering $1.75 trillion valuation target reflects a price-to-earnings…

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