Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s cafeteria workers become extremely rich:From company’s building caretaker to former employees all become millionaires post IPO

On Friday, June 12, 2026, SpaceX sold its shares to the public for the first time on the Nasdaq stock market. Earlier, the $75 billion (₹7.12 lakh crore) Initial Public Offering (IPO) made the company worth a giant $1.77 trillion (₹168 lakh crore). Because the company became worth so much money, Elon Musk became the world’s very first trillionaire. But Elon Musk was not the only one who got rich. Many other people became millionaires and billionaires too! Here are the other early bird investors who struck gold by investing in the spacecraft-making company: 1. SpaceX’s early investor – Antonio Gracias Antonio Gracias is one of Elon Musk’s close friends and an early investor who believed in SpaceX a long time ago. He owns a private investment company called Valor Equity Partners. Through his company, he owns a massive amount of SpaceX shares. When the US stock market opened, he acquired the status of a billionaire. 2. Regular SpaceX employees You did not have to be a big boss to get rich from this IPO. Regular people who work at SpaceX—like the engineers, mechanics, building caretaker and cafeteria office staff—got a huge reward. Many workers were given company shares as part of their pay over the years. According to an ‘X’ post, which was also shared by Musk himself, estimates that this IPO created over 4,400 new millionaires among current and former SpaceX employees. 3. Big investment firms Giant financial companies that manage money for people also made billions. Big names like BlackRock bought large amounts of SpaceX shares before and during the IPO. Now that the company is public, the value of their investments has jumped up to record-breaking levels. Apart from the above, ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), co-founder Jack Dorsey and Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud who had SpaceX’s shares have all struck gold, according to Forbes.