{"id":1005881,"date":"2026-04-30T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005881"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:54:36","slug":"inside-spacexs-ipo-musks-most-ambitious-plan-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/inside-spacexs-ipo-musks-most-ambitious-plan-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside SpaceX&#8217;s IPO: Musk&#8217;s most ambitious plan yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after the PayPal IPO in 2002, Elon Musk and company executives gathered at a Las Vegas casino to celebrate. But while others socialized by the pool, Musk was hunched over an old Soviet rocket manual and already planning his next venture: SpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;d come off \u200bwhat was an unequivocally big win, he was one of the largest shareholders, and yet he was focused on this next thing,&#8221; Kevin Hartz, an early PayPal investor \u200bwho was at the party, told Reuters. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s a multi-trillion-dollar business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after the PayPal IPO in 2002, Elon Musk and company executives gathered at a Las Vegas casino to celebrate. But while others socialized by the pool, Musk was hunched over an old Soviet rocket manual and already planning his next venture: SpaceX. &#8220;He&#8217;d come off \u200bwhat was an unequivocally big win, he was one of the largest shareholders, and yet he was focused on this next thing,&#8221; Kevin Hartz, an early PayPal investor \u200bwho was at the party, told Reuters. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s a multi-trillion-dollar business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005882,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005881\/revisions\/1005882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}