Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
Astronaut Reid Wiseman said a moment after returning to Earth challenged his views on faith.
He said he’s not religious but became emotional after seeing the Cross:
“There was just no other way for me to explain what I experienced.”
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🇺🇸 FLORIDA, FORT MYERS 🇺🇸 — DAYLIGHT HAMMER MURDER, April 3, 2026
VICTIM
• Female gas station clerk (mother of two teenage daughters) — DEAD (bludgeoned repeatedly in the head with a hammer)
SUSPECT
• Rolbert Joachim (Haitian national, illegal immigrant)
Charged Location
Outside a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida
Suspect smashed the victim’s car windshield, then repeatedly struck her in the head with a hammer, killing her.
MUST WATCH: Footage of an a man who looks like Alex Pretti with a gun in his waistband, spitting on and attacking federal law enforcement officers and kicking the tail light of their vehicle on January 13.
Bombshell report from the BBC.
Important context: Pretti was not a peaceful protester.