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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: SpaceX Files to Go Public

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Visa rolls out six AI tools aimed at improving dispute resolution. And NASA is set to launch four astronauts around the moon later today. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, April 1st. I'm Julie Chang for the

0:36.9

Wall Street Journal.

0:38.5

SpaceX has filed to go public, and it could be the biggest initial public offering ever.

0:45.7

According to people familiar with the matter, the satellite builder and rocket operator

0:50.0

has confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

0:55.0

The filing puts the company on track to potentially list shares by July.

0:59.6

SpaceX is aiming for an IPO that could raise between $40 and $80 billion.

1:05.1

WSJ reporter Corey Dreebush explains why SpaceX is choosing to file now.

1:10.0

The key reason is we have a couple other huge IPOs that are eyeing debuts later this year.

1:17.4

And those are AI rivals, which are OpenAI and Anthropic.

1:22.9

And so there's a really big advantage to being a first mover because a lot of the same investors

1:28.7

are going to be looking at putting money into SpaceX as open AI and as anthropic.

1:33.8

And if one of those doesn't go well and they happen to go first, those same fund managers

1:38.2

might say, you know what, I'm going to put it in a smaller order this time.

1:40.8

I don't think I'm going to buy as much of that risky stock.

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