NEWS: Jon Edwards, a SpaceX senior vice president who joined in 2004 when it had fewer than 50 people, was at the Nasdaq for the IPO and said it "did not feel like mission accomplished. Not even close." Jon Edwards runs Falcon and Dragon and has been at SpaceX for more than two decades. He was at the Nasdaq for the debut. He said the people of SpaceX have poured everything into the company for over 20 years, sacrificing time with family, sleep and a lot of life along the way. Standing at the Nasdaq felt like validation of that work. But in his words, it "did not feel like mission accomplished. Not even close." His take. It was another milestone on the journey and they are just getting started.

NEWS: Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino has congratulated Elon Musk and SpaceX on the largest IPO in history. The tie is personal. X is now part of that public company. It folded into xAI last year and xAI merged into SpaceX in February. Yaccarino ran X from 2023 until she stepped down in 2025. She said she is proud of the small role she played protecting free speech on the platform. She called the IPO a reminder that "dreams and an unflinching mission still matter" in America. Her message to the team. America and the world thank you.

NEWS: Tesla has filed a Robotaxi First Responder Interaction Plan covering nine areas across the entire Phoenix metro in Arizona. The areas. Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Glendale, Chandler, Gilbert, Paradise Valley and Maricopa County. This document is a required step before running driverless Teslas with no safety driver on public roads. It tells police and fire crews how to approach, stop and talk to a car with no one behind the wheel. The footprint puts Tesla straight into Waymo's backyard. Waymo has run robotaxis in the Phoenix area since 2018 and now does about 500,000 paid rides a week across its fleet. It follows Tesla's filing for a permit to run 5,000 robotaxis in Nevada and its plan for robotaxi-only Superchargers in the East Valley.

JUST IN: One year of free Supercharging on the Tesla Model 3 ends Monday in the US. The perk applies to new Model 3 Premium and Performance orders. June 15 is the cutoff. Tesla rolled it out in April to lift demand. Depending on how much you drive, a free year of charging can be worth several hundred dollars and up to roughly $1,200. The entry level Standard trim does not qualify. The deal can stack with Tesla's 2,000 mile trade in charging credit and its 0.99% financing.

NEWS: The investor who put about $380 million into Tesla starting in 2014 says the largest IPO in history is only day one for SpaceX. Ron Baron runs Baron Capital and has backed SpaceX across his funds for years. He held Tesla through every crash and made a fortune doing it. On the SpaceX debut he said it "feels like day one" and that the company is just getting started. Asked who the next SpaceX is, his answer was simple. There is no next.

NEWS: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has congratulated SpaceX on the largest IPO in history. Isaacman is no neutral observer. He flew to orbit twice on SpaceX rockets and made the first commercial spacewalk before he took over NASA. He credited the tens of thousands behind it and said they are "now fully realizing the American Dream." His hope is that the moment sparks many more companies like SpaceX, opening new prosperity for the people willing to dream big.

NEWS: Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI founding member and Tesla's former AI director, is in awe of SpaceX. "In awe of SpaceX and its story." Karpathy said you can think about what SpaceX has built in more than ten different ways and keep being amazed all over again, across its past, its present and its future. His congratulations went to the team. From one of the most respected engineers in the world, that is high praise.

NEWS: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is now worth $1.3 billion. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as its 11th employee. Today she runs the company's day to day operations as President and COO. Forbes just placed her on its 2026 list of America's Richest Self-Made Women. Employee number 11 to billionaire.

NEWS: Tesla FSD Supervised is now approved in 5 EU countries, with 4 more likely next. Approved so far. The Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and Belgium. Each one accepted the Dutch RDW approval, so Tesla skips a full re-test in every new country. Likely next. ~ Greece. The transport ministry has signaled a bill to recognize the Dutch approval ~ Ireland. Tesla is in talks with the national standards body and the transport department ~ Latvia. Testing is underway and a sign-off is rumored ~ Sweden. Public road testing is already running in several cities Spain is close behind. Its test fleet of 30 plus cars has covered about 80,000 km with zero incidents. Still waiting. Germany, France and Italy want the EU-wide committee to rule first. A vote could come late in 2026, with full EU rollout eyed for early 2027.

NEWS: 3.3 million SpaceX shares landed in Cathie Wood's Ark ETFs on debut day, about $500 million worth. Ark spread the buys across four funds when SPCX started trading on June 12. SpaceX instantly became a top holding. ~ ARKX. 6.9% of the fund ~ ARKQ. 4.5% ~ ARKK. 3.3% ~ ARKW. 2.7% To make room, Ark sold down other names. Among them was Rocket Lab, a direct SpaceX competitor. When one of the biggest names in growth investing puts SpaceX near the top of four funds on day one, that is a vote of conviction.

NEWS: SpaceX went public today and the numbers are staggering. What Elon wanted. SpaceX set out to raise about $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. It priced at a fixed $135 a share, take it or leave it. What he got. He got the $75 billion, the largest IPO in history. And the market wanted far more. Demand topped $250 billion, roughly four times the shares on offer. Then it opened. $SPCX jumped to about $167 a share, up nearly 24% on day one. The valuation ran past the IPO mark to $2.16 trillion. That is close to $400 billion added in a single session. Where Musk stands now. The pop made him the world's first trillionaire, with a net worth around $1.1 trillion. Where this is heading. The next catalyst is fast entry into the Nasdaq 100, about 15 trading days out in early July. Only about 4% of shares trade freely, so index funds will be forced to buy into a tiny float. Through the end of June that demand is a tailwind. If the momentum holds into the inclusion, a move toward $200 and a valuation near $2.5 trillion is on the table. That is a scenario, not a promise. Bears still warn of a pullback once insider lock-ups expire. But on day one, this is already the biggest market debut the world has ever seen.

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire. SpaceX began trading today and pushed Elon Musk's net worth past $1 trillion. Reuters and Forbes put it around $1.1 trillion. No one in history has ever held this much. The second richest person on earth, Larry Page, is worth around $300 billion. That is less than a third of Musk. Almost none of it is cash. More than 90% is stock in the companies he built. His SpaceX shares are locked for 366 days. He cannot sell them for over a year. Elon Musk rang the Nasdaq bell from Starbase today. His goal has not changed. Make life multi-planetary.

BREAKING: SpaceX has priced the largest IPO in history. In an official press release, SpaceX confirmed it priced its IPO at $135 per share for 555,555,555 shares of Class A common stock. That is about $75 billion raised. Trading starts June 12 under the ticker SPCX, on both the Nasdaq Global Select Market and Nasdaq Texas. The offering is set to close June 15. The SEC declared the registration effective on June 11. That came one day after Senator Elizabeth Warren asked regulators to delay it. They did not. Underwriters also hold a 30-day option to buy up to 83,333,333 more shares at the IPO price. If used, the raise climbs past $86 billion. "Teams are go for launch," SpaceX said.

NEWS: Founders Fund turned a $600 million bet on SpaceX into more than $50 billion. Peter Thiel's Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in SpaceX. It put in about $600 million across several rounds over nearly 20 years. At the $135 $SPCX IPO price, that roughly 3% stake is worth more than $50 billion, Bloomberg reports. It is one of the great venture bets of all time. Founders Fund is not alone. Bloomberg says Valor Equity holds about 4% worth nearly $70 billion. Andreessen Horowitz sits on more than $10 billion. Thiel saw it coming. "I would never bet against Elon in anything." Hard rule number one in Silicon Valley.

NEWS: xAI is launching a plugin marketplace for Grok Build. Grok Build is xAI's coding tool. It now has a built-in marketplace where developers can browse, install and update plugins without leaving the terminal. A plugin bundles skills, slash commands, agents, hooks, MCP servers and LSPs into one package. Type /marketplace inside Grok Build to browse. Or run grok plugin install from the command line. It opens with partners from across the stack. ~ MongoDB for data and queries ~ Vercel for deployments and domains ~ Sentry for debugging production errors ~ Chrome DevTools for live browser control ~ Cloudflare for Workers and more ~ Superpowers for agent workflows Security is built in. Every remote plugin is pinned to a specific commit and verified at install. The catalog is open, so anyone can publish a plugin with a pull request.

NEWS: Tesla's first Folding Unit Superchargers have landed in Europe. These are pre-assembled V4 stations that ship folded and unfold on site. Tesla drops the unit in, connects power and it goes live. No field wiring between stalls. No technician needed to commission it. Each unit pairs one V4 cabinet with 8 charging posts. The cabinet pushes up to 500kW per stall and up to 1.2MW total. Two units fit on a single truck, so that is 16 posts per delivery, up from 12 before. Tesla's charging chief Max de Zegher says the folding units deploy twice as fast and cost more than 20% less than the old design. Installs that took weeks now take days. This is how the network scales. Build the Supercharger in a factory. Truck it in. Unfold it. Charge.

NEWS: SpaceX is handing out scholarships to students right next to @StarbaseTX SpaceX awarded scholarships to 11 students from the Brownsville and Point Isabel school districts in South Texas. A few of them spent the day at Starbase. They toured the site, met the SpaceX team and stood in the shadow of Starship. The company building rockets to Mars is also investing in the kids growing up in its backyard.

NEWS: As Tesla FSD Supervised expands across Europe, the Czech Ministry of Transport says it is working on its approach. The ministry posted a full clarification on X. The main points. ~ The Dutch RDW approval is temporary and applies only inside the Netherlands. It is not automatically valid across the EU. ~ Other member states can adopt it through their own decision. Most key EU states are waiting on the European assessment first. ~ The expert assessment continues. The next round of EU Technical Committee talks on motor vehicles is set for June 30. ~ FSD Supervised is not autonomous driving. It is an SAE Level 2 system where the driver stays in control and keeps full responsibility. ~ The ministry says it is not blocking the tech. The Czech Republic is the second EU country after Germany with a Level 3 legal framework. It is preparing one for Level 4. One claim did not hold up. The ministry said this affects fewer than 300 vehicles. A community note now rated helpful on X corrects that. European Commission data shows Czechia had 8,642 registered Teslas at the end of 2024, nearly a quarter of its battery electric car market. Every Tesla built since 2023 carries the HW4 hardware FSD Supervised runs on. The real number is in the thousands, not the hundreds.