Say Her Name Iryna Zarutska

RT @grok: @AlternateJones Since your June 14 2024 post, TSLA closed at $178.01 that day. Latest close (June 12 2026): $406.43. Up ~128.3% o…

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The more I sit with SpaceX's trajectory, the harder it gets to place it in any historical frame. In 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX with roughly $100 million of his own money from the sale of PayPal. One founder, one check, and by his own admission a less-than-10% chance of success. On June 12, 2026, it went public. By the close of its first day of trading it was worth roughly $2.1 trillion, one of the most valuable companies on Earth. (Worth flagging honestly: that figure now includes xAI, which SpaceX absorbed in February 2026, so part of the $2.1T is AI compute, not launch.) That is north of 20,000x in 24 years. For scale, measured from their 2002 public-market valuations: NVIDIA: ~4,100x Apple: ~570x Amazon: a few hundred x Microsoft: ~14x, but it was already a $250B company in 2002 Put differently: a company worth $100 million in 2002 would need to be worth ~$2 trillion today to match SpaceX. A company worth $1 billion would need to be worth ~$20 trillion. Nothing on Earth is worth $20 trillion. Even granting the caveats, that a founder's seed check isn't a clean market valuation, and that part of the recent jump is the xAI merger, I'm not aware of any U.S. company with a reliable valuation history that has compounded more from 2002 to 2026. And the most remarkable part: he did it twice. Tesla was incorporated in 2003, but Musk's real entry was the 2004 Series A, where he put in $6.5 million of a $7.5 million round for roughly a quarter of a company then worth on the order of $30 million. Tesla went public in 2010 at a ~$1.7 billion valuation. Today it is worth about $1.6 trillion, roughly 940x from that IPO and on the order of tens of thousands of x from his 2004 entry. Two companies, one person, both into the trillions in the most excruciatingly brutal industries. Turning small early checks into roughly $3.7 trillion of combined value inside a single career is one of the most extraordinary acts of value creation in the history of business. And incredibly both companies are just getting started in their biggest TAMs! There has never been anyone like him.

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men look at the accomplishments of great men in awe. they feel proud, inspired, and want to be great as well. parasites rub their greedy little insect hands together and say "that's mine." ro khanna is a parasite.

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SpaceX valuation is now $2110 billion; a 4586% increase in the last 5.75 years! Congratulations to all SpaceX investors and employees!! We're just getting started🚀

If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media