{"id":19586,"date":"2026-08-06T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19586"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:01:16","slug":"cashing-in-on-spacex-every-chance-i-get-ill-sell-a-little-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19586","title":{"rendered":"Cashing in on SpaceX: &#8216;Every chance I get, I&#8217;ll sell a little more&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket. He was paid partly in stock &#8211; a common trade-off at start-ups as a hiring incentive.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some 17 years on, those 200,000 shares he was given are worth about $23m (\u00a317m) &#8211; and the 63-year-old says he&#8217;s ready to start cashing them as soon as he can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every chance I get going forward, I&#8217;ll sell a little bit more,&#8221; he tells the BBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The shares have been going up so radically it keeps messing up my life plans &#8211; you really can&#8217;t know the future, so it&#8217;s better to sell early and in intervals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lavoie is far from being the only one who has seen the value of his stake in SpaceX rocket over the years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company&#8217;s founder, Elon Musk, said on Fox News that SpaceX&#8217;s listing on the stock market in June had likely made &#8220;several thousand&#8221; employees millionaires &#8211; including staff &#8220;who were working on the production line&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to reports, there are estimated to be 4,400 new millionaires created by the listing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike most newly-listed firms, SpaceX shares are set to be released in stages: the first 20% on 6 August, with more due in batches through the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whether or not shareholders decide to sell their stake at the first opportunity is a matter for individuals. Unlike Lavoie, some may choose to hold onto their shares altogether in the hope of bigger gains later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq in June, in the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history, valuing the rocket and satellite firm at more than $2 trillion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It briefly made Elon Musk the world&#8217;s first trillionaire, before the stock cooled and his fortune slipped back below the milestone within weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its first results as a public company this week, the firm&#8217;s quarterly revenue was shown to have nearly doubled to $7.8bn (\u00a35.8bn) from a year earlier, while its spending ballooned to $18.3bn &#8211; more than six times what it was a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, SpaceX made a net loss of $143m in the three months to June, and a loss of $2bn during the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Musk pushed back against sceptics on an earnings call: &#8220;I think people are really underestimating Starlink&#8221;. He predicted the satellite internet service &#8211; the one part of the company that is currently making a profit &#8211; could one day deliver a majority of the world&#8217;s internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But shares in the company tumbled on the back of the earnings report, with investors generally spooked by the huge amounts of money being spent on AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lavoie plans to use his money from selling some of his shares to fund a hotel he is renovating in Pontebba, Italy&#8217;s northeastern Friuli region, plus a small brewery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says is priority for the future is raising awareness of air pollution in the area, in partnership with a local environmental group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before he was hired, Lavoie was interviewed by Musk himself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a very charming person when he wants something,&#8221; Lavoie says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He wouldn&#8217;t be drawn on Musk&#8217;s politics &#8211; &#8220;that&#8217;s his business&#8221; &#8211; but is unreserved about the company: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been happily supportive and impressed, and would work hard with those incredible people again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some analysts value SpaceX at less than half its current stock market price, warning  its ties to xAI carry real financial risk &#8211; part of a broader worry on Wall Street that sky-high valuations for AI-linked firms, including SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, could prove overdone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinead O&#8217;Sullivan, an economist who has previously worked for Nasa, told the BBC in June she thinks SpaceX is an &#8220;Elon Musk ego project&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re buying a share of the Elon Musk brand more than any kind of space industry,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Ron Epstein, an aerospace analyst at Bank of America Securities, says the recent share price swings say more about the market than the company. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of it has to do with macro trends,&#8221; he says. &#8220;None of it really has anything to do with what&#8217;s going on fundamentally at the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says investors judging SpaceX purely as an AI bet are missing the point: &#8220;They&#8217;re not just a compute provider. 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