"And that's what SpaceX is all about - is to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone."
@SpaceX Founder, CEO, CTO & Chairman @elonmusk takes the @NasdaqExchange podium on $SPCX IPO day.
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.
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.
I have Involved with 9-5 before, It was literally 9 to 9 sometimes.
I never enjoy any single day of working as employee. I was always thinking I'm wasting my valuable time and can do better things in internet, at least a remote job.
And left job at 2022 but couldn't make my first dollars then join 9-5 again. And left again few month later. Finally in 2025 make my first Dollars through data labeling job.
I work with very lower hourly rate but I learned, got certified and now started my own AI data training agency @aiandmlnet in 2026 and got my first client and its $300 order.
Currently the the agency is partnered with some company to process dataset for full model
https://t.co/qp10qcoqb0
Just wrapped up annotating a big floorplan
images batch
Marking wall junctions, doors & windows
to help train computer vision models for
architectural floor plan analysis.
Precision work that powers smarter
building/space recognition AI.
#DataAnnotation#ComputerVision
In order to build a great thing needs time
In order to get time you need financial freedom
In order to get financial freedom needs cash flow assets
Don't waste your money in liability, buy assets
And keep looking what that great thing you really want to build
Just wrapped up annotating a big floorplan
images batch
Marking wall junctions, doors & windows
to help train computer vision models for
architectural floor plan analysis.
Precision work that powers smarter
building/space recognition AI.
#DataAnnotation#ComputerVision
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that weโve made safe for general use.
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Whether you are an indie maker or funded, building a start-up is hard like Steve jobs said entrepreneurship is a 18 hours a day job seven days a week in a raw. But only true builders enjoy that hard journey and end up with big success eventually
I have a new kind of big button that I can press for Codex. Over the next 100 days, we will select one person per day who does impressive or incredibly useful work with Codex and give them 10X usage limits for a month to see what they can do with it.
First one tomorrow.