{"id":475938,"date":"2026-06-13T22:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:12:32","slug":"elon-musk-gets-public-trading-of-spacex-under-way-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475938\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk gets public trading of SpaceX under way from Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he gave the company &#8220;less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all&#8221; when it first started, and it is now going public &#8220;with the largest IPO ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Musk made the remarks from the company&#8217;s headquarters in southern Texas before it officially began trading on the US stock exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Company officials celebrated the ceremonial start of trading at twin ceremonies at the Nasdaq headquarters in New York City and from the Texas headquarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/czj8dd0kyl7t\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 dGfqry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he gave the company &#8220;less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-475938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}