Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha, who previously served as the firm’s top leader, has joined SpaceX as a director on its board. Botha will serve as an independent director, expanding the new public company’s board to nine people including Chief Executive Elon Musk and President Gwynne Shotwell.
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The company's valuation prices in lofty growth expectations.
Options on SpaceX started trading at a brisk pace on Tuesday, offering investors another avenue to bet on the future of the newly listed shares of Elon Musk's rocket company. Options allow investors to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price within a set time period, and are used to hedge against risk or to speculate on price movements. Some 115,000 options contracts changed hands in the first 10 minutes of trading, with calls leading puts 1.7-to-1, according to Trade Alert data.
Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX rose more than 10% in premarket trading on Tuesday, putting the company on course to overtake Amazon.com in market value to become the world's fifth‑largest company, as it extended a post-IPO rally. The stock, which surged more than 19% on Monday, was last up 10.1% at $211.8, giving the company a market capitalization of nearly $2.8 trillion if gains hold. Amazon was last valued at $2.66 trillion.
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What such a deal would actually hand the automaker's shareholders is less clear-cut than the headline odds suggest.
Gerber also said Tesla does not own the "brains" behind its self-driving and robotics ambitions.
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SpaceX just completed the largest IPO ever.

Two SpaceX (SPCX) retail investors who bought shares at the initial public offering (IPO), Tamar June and Shane Williams, join Yahoo Finance to explain the process, what drew them to the company, and their future plans with the stock.
The long-awaited public debut of SpaceX has become one of the most significant events in modern market history.
SpaceX's $150 debut valued the company near $2 trillion, pushing Musk's fortune to almost $1.05 trillion.
SpaceX stock (SPCX) continues rising in Monday's pre-market trading (maintaining gains at the session open at the time of this video's posting) ahead of the space company's first full day of trading since its historic IPO last Friday. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman and Barron's Investor Circle Newsletter editor Josh Schafer examine SpaceX's performance thus far and what it may signal about the success of the company in its future lifetime.

What to watch from SpaceX and other tech stocks during the holiday-shortened week.
In its efforts to secure European approval of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers have said amount to misleading marketing. A Reuters examination published last month found that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other leaders over the past year have increasingly cited statistics they say prove its FSD driver-assistance feature is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. Tesla has presented the inflated safety data to some European regulators, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters through public records requests, as the EV maker seeks wider approval of FSD in a region where it is trying to regain market share.
Tesla bull Brad Ferguson’s valuation includes $957 from Robotaxi and $2,647 from Optimus.
The Ark Venture Fund was an early investor in the space giant.
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire as his space venture SpaceX’s blockbuster initial public offering pushed his estimated fortune to within $29 billion of the historic milestone. SpaceX IPO Drives Musk’s...
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