Just 10 days after the company’s blockbuster IPO, buyers of its initial public shares are in the red.

Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX tech conglomerate plunged 16% Monday to close below their price on June 12, the date of the company’s massive initial public offering.

It was its third-straight trading day of declines for a company that just 10 days ago orchestrated the largest IPO ever.

At Monday’s closing price of $154.60, the average investor who bought SpaceX shares on the open market after its debut has now seen most of their gains disappear, market data shows.

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        More than 90% of the value is because of AI, and XAI is shit. The XAI is so shit it will probably drag down the real value SpeceX has from rocket government contracts and Starlink.
        So yes it is near worthless, and throwing 60 billion from the IPO out on Cursor, means most of the 80 billion they got is gone too.

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    It’s honestly too early to say SpaceX will fail. I hope it does poorly enough that they remove Elon, but realistically that will never happen.

    When he offered to buy Twitter for a massive amount everyone thought he was an idiot who was wasting his money, and we all know how that turned out. Even in spite of the AI bullshit SpaceX is hiding, I’d say there is a chance they fluke through it and end up massively positive.

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      They can’t remove him, he owns the majority of voting shares.

      They would need to do multiple more offerings to dwindle that down, and id be shocked if he ever gave up enough shares to be at risk.

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      They are one of a few that can put stuff in low orbit.

      And one of 2 that can get to higher orbits.

      They will have plenty of launches.

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    Honestly, if it was just SpaceX + Starlink as the IPO, I might be interested in picking some up. A healthy business is good business, especially when it is useful to society.

    Grok is a poison pill, because it is a bad AI that isn’t in a healthy place. Quite bluntly, Chinese offerings are superior to their American counterparts, because they aren’t poisoned by bad economics and are very performant on local hardware. On top of that, the IPO is suspect because it circumvented the rules that were intended to protect investors from bad outcomes.

    All in all, this thing stinks like hell, and Musk is a fish’s head.

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        Haha that’s still to much. The value is based on XAI hype, and XAI is really next to worthless. They are doing everything after everybody else did it, and then they do it worse. It’s so bad they have no customers, and instead sell their server capacity to other AI companies. And the value of that will diminish fast, as better and cheaper hardware is developed.

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      Most of spacex is privately owned, there is much more demand than real supply of the stock so it’s overvalued. As more former SpaceX employees current private investors and short term investors sell the price will slowly go down.

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    Keep tumbling. Then fold Tesla and all his stupid other companies into it and bankrupt it all.

    Fuck musk and anyone that supports this filthy grifting pile of limp dicked shit that resembles a human being.

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        Don’t bother, snipe the talent that is actually competent and let the sites rot. Then give Nasa the resources to build their own manufacturing capacity.

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      You missed the change to add the qualifier “Nazi” to that, so let me correct that real quick: Fuck Musk and anyone that supports that Nazi.

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      It’s almost as if the price was artificially pumped and the stocks are now being dumped in order to take advantage of the unscrupulous…

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    I am once again reminded that Elon Musk literally said that if Trump didn’t win the election, that he would be going to prison. I think Enron will have been a smaller scandal than what is now unfolding

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    I mean, wasn’t this the plan all along? Makia bunch of theoretical money off the IPO and just fuck you if you were foolish enough to waste your money buying in?

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      The plan was to get retail investors (idiots) to pay loans and the original investors with cold hard cash.

      Now the retail (idiots) investors own stock in a business that makes no money and is burning piles of money monthly.

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        No way man, they’re gonna make space datacenters…

        You know, the things famously resource intensive massive but in space. They can’t lose.

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          don’t forget that as hard as it is to get massive amounts of electricity into a space vehicle, it’s even harder to radiate heat away into a vacuum. space may be cold, but it doesn’t conduct or absorb heat well.