🚨 BREAKING:
THIS GUY MIGRATED TO THE U.S. FROM MEXICO AND WORKED AS A WELDER AT SPACEX
HE RECEIVED $10,000 IN STOCK AND WAS PAID $28/HOUR FOR 10 YEARS
AFTER IPO HIS $SPCX STAKE IS WORTH AROUND $1,000,000
HE IS ONE OF 4,400 EMPLOYEES WHO BECAME MILLIONAIRES TODAY!!
While these staff members are millionaires on paper, they are bound by typical post-IPO lock-up rules, meaning they can only sell their shares in progressive increments over the coming months.
Hence paper millionaires
Welders, Cooks, Cafeteria staff. Over 4,000 SpaceX employees are reportedly becoming millionaires as the company lists today because SpaceX paid them in stock options, not just salaries. That’s the real lesson of this IPO: ownership beats income and owning the right asset early changes everything. Huge moment for these people and their families.
@Stocahastic@KerenKBitto You've said it all
Once told my dad I'm more educated and have worked twice as much as he did when he was my age but couldn't afford the same luxury.
Y'all don't understand depreciation?
Poor man pikin can’t even be part of the Private Placement for Dangote Refineries.
Minimum shares to get is 1,000,000
Cost of share is $0.35.
Approximately N500m
This is the minimum amount you must have to be part of it.
Poor man pikin don see something for this life.
Just cashed out my biggest NBA win ever.
$6M total.
$4M on Stake + $2M elsewhere.
Knicks were down 29 against the Spurs.
Came back and won by 1.
A lot of deleted replies tonight.
We need to stop promoting these fatuous and simplistic “big bad West” narratives as a counterpoint to African development, which appeal to the visceral sentiment by repeating a “primordial fact of all history”- nations seek to dominate others for the benefit of their citizens.
1) The international market economy is NOT a branch of the International Red Cross
2) African nations are very much capable of directing their own resources and navigating the interminable course of their own destinies. To argue otherwise is to deny them of agency - 60 years after independence (where was China 40 years ago?)
3) You don’t hear that argument in Asia which shares a similar experience of colonialism.
4) Dangote and Kasapreko and Aba leather goods, etc are selling across Africa.
I said the narrative is simplistic. Let me tell you a story. I have spent the last 5 years and millions of my own money having invented a digital system for local currency Exchange (a retail component of the PAPSS currency exchange) that allows Africans (54 countries, 42 different currencies) to use their local currencies for cross-border trade (USD exchange depletes national reserves and attracts $5.3 billion in yearly costs).
The U.S. government through its Commercial Service and Embassies, has left no stone unturned to make this project successful.
And African Central Banks? Only very few have responded positively. Can you guess what it takes to secure a regulatory license in Africa? 3- 4 years of undiluted pain and a boatload of money. (The process takes about 3 months here in the U.S.)
Make of this fact what you will.
We’re not ready for prime time
The saddest gambling trap isn't the initial loss.
It's spending the next few years trying to win it back.
Every paycheck, bonus, and extra dollar gets thrown into the chase.
The real damage isn't always the first loss. It's the years spent trying to win it back.
The pump and dumps of @CryptoHayes
Aug 2025: calls 126x for $HYPE
Sep 2025: dumps everything 3 weeks later
Jun 2026: calls for $150 = $HYPE
Jun 2026: dumps his entire bag 1 day later
A lot of people in crypto and gambling never learn how to preserve wealth.
The mindset that got them rich was built on extreme risk, and eventually that same mindset wipes them out.
I own zero bitcoin.
but if bitcoin loses,
to a competitor,
crypto will never produce an SoV.
“What if they create a better one”
The psychological feature of being able to buy, hold and forget forever is what makes something a store of value. Eg. Gold.
Selling 32 Bitcoin proved several important things:
✅ Posting "Buying Bonds" was a bad idea
✅ Selling any amount of BTC was a bad idea
✅ Cutting to 6mo of dividend coverage was a bad idea
✅ Posting ads on how STRC held its peg was a bad idea
✅ Odds of SP500 inclusion: 0%