Ryan Mac

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The Daily · How Elon Musk Engineered the World’s Biggest I.P.O. · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

And after that three months, typically you get the thumbs up and you get to enter the index.

What's happening here instead is that after just 15 days of trading with SpaceX, so 15 days after the IPO, SpaceX will be added to the NASDAQ 100 and essentially force the funds that trade off the NASDAQ 100 to buy shares of the company, to mirror essentially what's in the index.

What that does for SpaceX is that it gives the company way more money and way more investors to work with.

So you're essentially getting access to billions of dollars that you wouldn't necessarily have access to.

And, you know, shareholders that are already going to own your stock because of this index opportunity.

That's a great question.

I think it's a bit of both.

For Musk and SpaceX, they get access to a lot of capital, billions of dollars worth, that they wouldn't have had access to without these rule changes, or they would have had to wait much longer to get access to that.

For the indexes, there is a fear of missing out here, a FOMO that they could be missing out on these potential gains for their investors in this kind of once-in-a-lifetime IPO.

And that has frightened a lot of experts.

I talked to one, for example, who said, it's like creating rules for football.

And right before you get to the Super Bowl,

you throw some of those rules out the window.

You know, you've created these rules of the road here that have simply been eliminated at this kind of monumental event.

I think when numbers go up, everyone is happy.

Everyone gets to celebrate and take part in the win.

But there's no guarantee that this necessarily goes up.

And what happens if shares start to fall after the first couple of days of trading?

You mentioned Google there.

But I think of something like Facebook when it went public and the trials and tribulations it faced.

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