@WeimarWorlds Imagine seeing videos like this and in other Third World countries and not feeling eternally blessed that we were born in the United States of America. We have one life only to enjoy - each of us in the United States absolutely won the lottery being born here.
@EndWokeness@Th_STL I’m as conservative as they come. This guy was an absolute knucklehead. He knew she had a weapon and yet continued to stalk her She doesn’t know what his intent was. Complete stupidity as she clearly brandished a weapon. The hard truth is that his ego cost him his life.
@nytimes@TheAthletic The rest of the heathens and goblins in that league hate that Caitlin and Sophie are their league’s biggest stars with the best endorsements.
The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
SpaceX created over 4,400 millionaires today, and many of them are regular working people.
They are not executives or founders, they are welders, technicians, machinists, and launch crew, the people who showed up every day and built the rockets with their hands.
Around 400 of them are sitting on stakes worth over $100 million each.
For context, Google's IPO created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's created around the same. SpaceX is doing more than four times both of them in a single day.
Juan Hernandez is one of them.
SpaceX created over 4,400 millionaires today, and many of them are regular working people.
They are not executives or founders, they are welders, technicians, machinists, and launch crew, the people who showed up every day and built the rockets with their hands.
Around 400 of them are sitting on stakes worth over $100 million each.
For context, Google's IPO created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's created around the same. SpaceX is doing more than four times both of them in a single day.
Juan Hernandez is one of them.
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.
@MarioNawfal Which is why T-Mobile agreed to a joint venture with Verizon AT&T a couple of days ago and all three will be using ASTS as their wholesale satellite broadband provider to counter Elon….. ASTS will have the three largest MNO’s working with them while Elon won’t have any.
@DustinHuntwn 100% spot on. I would argue that this even applies to the disingenuous politicians who criticize stock market gains as having no impact on the common person. Just about every employer offers a 401(k). It’s ultimately a personal decision whether they choose to participate or not.
@StealthQE4 If someone starts a company that can deliver any product to a customer’s doorstep in 24 hours while creating 1.6M jobs that didn’t exist before, then they too should be entitled to the riches that come their way. Until then, complain on X, that surely is a wealth builder.
@CBSNews Any Angelino that votes for Bass seriously needs to have their head examined. That said, never underestimate the stupidity and naivete of a liberal.
A relatively unknown SpaceX rival has rallied 6,000%, powered by a mob of zealots and a stock guru known as the Kook. Bloomberg's @sana_pashankar has more https://t.co/gCdRfvTE6Q
@reredevaux Congratulations on the historic win Cherie!! 🌹🐎 🏆 Amazing and absolutely classy pre-race interview! You set the gold standard in exhibiting humility. Good luck on the next leg - we’re pulling for you all!