Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire yesterday after a frenzy for shares in his rocket company SpaceX.
Mr Musk, who wants to hurl data centres into space and colonise Mars, declared his ambition was nothing less than ‘to make life multi-planetary’ as he launched the New York stock market float.
Investors were keen to climb aboard, sending the aerospace firm’s shares soaring by more than 20 per cent and lifting its valuation from $1.8trillion (£1.3trillion) to more than $2trillion (£1.49trillion).
The initial public offering on New York’s Nasdaq exchange was the world’s biggest.
And it was enough to lift the wealth of Mr
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