史上最大 IPO：SpaceX 上市，马斯克成全球首位万亿富翁

Today we'll talk about a big event that happened just yesterday.

A rocket-making company went public.

And it was the biggest 'going public' in history.

You might have heard of this company.

It's called SpaceX.

It's an American company.

It mainly does two things.

First, it makes rockets.

Its rockets are impressive.

They can fly up into the sky, and also fly back, and be used again.

Second, it has placed many, many small satellites in the sky.

These satellites are linked together.

They let people all over the world get online.

Even if you're on the open sea, or in the desert,

with nothing beside you,

you can still get online.

This thing is called 'Starlink'.

So you see, what this company does

are all things that sound very 'future'.

Now let's first talk about a word: 'going public'.

What does 'going public' mean?

We'll go slowly.

Before, a company belonged to a few people.

For example the boss, and the few people who put in money at the start.

Others, even if very rich, couldn't buy its shares.

Going public is when this company,

for the first time, takes its shares out and sells them openly.

Ordinary people can buy them too.

Once you buy its shares,

you become a 'small shareholder' of this company.

If the company earns money later,

you can get a little share too.

The more valuable the company, the more valuable your shares.

Yesterday, SpaceX went public just like that.

Its stock listed on America's Nasdaq.

At first, the set price was 135 dollars per share.

As it turned out, far too many people wanted to buy.

After the open, the price rose all the way up.

At its highest, it climbed to 176 dollars.

By the close, it settled at around 161 dollars.

In other words, on the first day, it rose about 19%.

How much did this listing sell in total?

About 75 billion dollars.

What kind of concept is this?

This is the biggest IPO in human history.

IPO is the English term for going public.

Before, no company had ever,

when going public, sold this much money's worth.

After going public, the company SpaceX

was suddenly worth about 1.77 trillion dollars.

Intraday, it even briefly passed 2 trillion.

Now, it's already the sixth-largest public company in America.

This event also has a main character.

That's SpaceX's boss, Musk.

After the company went public,

the shares in Musk's hands suddenly became extremely valuable.

He became the world's first 'trillionaire'.

In other words, his money exceeded one trillion dollars.

Before him, no one in the world

had ever been rich to this degree.

He's the first.

This listing also has a very special feature.

Usually when a company goes public,

the shares left for ordinary people to buy are few.

About only ten percent.

The rest all go to big institutions and big funds.

But this time, Musk said

he'd leave about thirty percent of the shares for ordinary people.

Three times the usual.

In other words, he wants more ordinary people

to be able to buy a little piece of this company too.

Finally, let's think together.

Why are so many people scrambling to buy a rocket-making company?

When it comes down to it, what they're buying isn't rockets.

What they're buying is a 'belief'.

They believe:

in the future, people going to the sky will happen more and more.

The sky will become an enormous business.

Buying a little today is a bet that this future will come.

Of course, whether the future will really come,

no one can guarantee right now.

Finally, I want to ask you.

If you also had a little spare money,

would you bet on a future

you believe in?

In your heart, what does that future look like?