Shares of SpaceX soared 19% in their Wall Street debut, making the rocket maker's founder and CEO Elon Musk the first-ever trillionaire.
The shares debuted at a target price of $135 a share, opened at $150 ... and finished the day slightly below $161.
That price gives the company a market value of around $2.1 trillion.
Forbes estimates that Musk, who is also a major shareholder in Tesla, is now worth $1.1 trillion.
Musk says SpaceX is going public because it needs money to fund its ambitions of putting satellites and data centers in space and eventually establishing a colony on Mars.
The $75 billion in proceeds from the IPO tops the previous high of $26 billion for Saudi Aramco's IPO in 2019.
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