SpaceX Makes History With Biggest-Ever IPO
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down SpaceX's big debut in the public markets as shares start trading on the Nasdaq. They are joined by 137 Ventures Partner Christian Garrett, Pegasus Tech Ventures Founder Anis Uzzaman, Laffer Tengler Investments CEO & CIO Nancy Tengler, and Tesla retail investor Alexandra Merz to discuss what it means for investors, the space economy, and the AI IPO pipeline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm David Weston. |
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| 0:41.7 | Thank you. Audio Studios. Podcasts, Radio News. Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Ludlow in |
| 0:48.8 | San Francisco. |
| 0:51.5 | This is Bloomberg Tech. I'm Ed Ludlow. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm Caroline Hyde. And today is the day. Spacex's big debut in the public markets. |
| 1:00.0 | The company is set to begin trading any moment now. |
| 1:03.0 | We'll break down what that means for investors and for the space economy and for the IPO pipeline. |
| 1:09.0 | Elon Musk speaking at Starbase, Texas, just a couple of hours ago. |
| 1:12.6 | I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all, to be clear. |
| 1:21.6 | In fact, I told people this. I said, look, we're probably going to fail, but you know, |
| 1:24.6 | should give it a try because if we don't, if there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly |
| 1:33.2 | space-bearing civilization. |
| 1:35.9 | And we'll check in on these markets as the latest indicated price of SpaceX shares is $162 each. |
| 1:42.7 | The IPO price, $134. We look at the NASDAQ 100, Ed. We're up 6.10%. |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah. And look, this is about geopolitics. This is about hope on some sort of deal. MOU with Iran and the |
| 1:53.3 | United States. But thus far, we are completely focused on the impact of this IPO. |
| 1:57.6 | Yeah, look, there is a lot of evidence that whatever asset class you look at, |
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