Elon musk is the richest person on earth because of
Tesla and increasingly because of his startup, SpaceX,
Tesla stock took off like a rocket ship in the
early days of Covid but has since stalled. By
contrast, SpaceX has chugged along steadily, But how
does anyone who's not a friend of Ellen invest in
SpaceX, which is not even publicly traded if you've
got the money, start your own firm so that
when SpaceX needs to raise capital, you can join
a funding round, but you'll need the right Silicon
Valley contacts. And even then you may have to
pay up 5% management fee to team up with other
investors carried interest. Maybe even an access fee.
You can buy private shares from early investors looking to
cash out, but you have to be an accredited
investor. Also demand is high, which means shares
are often unavailable. And when they are the deals
close quickly, you can buy funds that own dozens
of handpicked companies, including SpaceX, but these are
difficult to access or are closed end other options by
Google's parent alphabet, which invested almost a billion dollars
in SpaceX in 2015. But Alphabet is so big
it's unlikely to move on. SpaceX's prospects. Or
you can buy other companies in the same industry