Work at SpaceX? Watch This Before your IPO
Ready For Retirement
James Conole, CFP®
4.8 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you work at SpaceX, then you are sitting on one of the most valuable assets in the world. |
| 0:04.8 | And with an IPO likely in 2026, the decisions you make this year could permanently impact your freedom or your stress for years to come. |
| 0:14.7 | But here's the problem. Most SpaceX employees ask the wrong question first. |
| 0:19.6 | They ask, what should I do with my stock? |
| 0:22.1 | It's not a bad question, but the first question should always be, what do I want my life to look |
| 0:27.3 | like? What outcome am I trying to create here? Because once you know that, then you can work backwards. |
| 0:33.8 | But if you don't know that first, any decision is just a guess. |
| 0:38.2 | So here's why this video matters. |
| 0:40.4 | Space X stock is a powerful asset. |
| 0:43.3 | But if you don't have direction in the decision that you are making, you're going to squander |
| 0:47.6 | this opportunity. |
| 0:49.0 | But if you use this stock and if you combine it with a clear plan for how you can hit your early retirement goals, |
| 0:55.3 | for how you can create the outcome that you want, this may be one of the most valuable |
| 0:59.1 | assets you ever have. So in this video, I'm going to help show you how you can work backwards |
| 1:03.8 | for the life that you want to determine what should you do with your stock, meaning how much |
| 1:07.9 | should you sell, how much should you keep? What tax strategy should you |
| 1:11.5 | employ? What investment strategy should you do? How do you use this stock to purchase the house, |
| 1:17.0 | to retire early, to send kids to college, whatever your goals might be? But to start, let's talk |
| 1:22.2 | about what do you want your life to look like? Do you want to downsize to part-time work or to |
| 1:26.3 | passion work? Do you want to take more career risk withouttime work or to passion work? Do you want to take |
| 1:27.5 | more career risk without any fear of what might go wrong? Or do you just simply want to be in a |
| 1:32.2 | position where you never have to worry about your paycheck ever again? Now, all of these things are what |
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