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Fidelity quietly dropped its minimum account requirement from $500,000 to $2,000 - a 99.6% cut that lets millions of small retail investors in days before the biggest stock debut in history.
The catch is who they need to sell to.
- SpaceX reserved up to 30% of the offering for retail, far above the usual single-digit share
- Selling within the first 15 days triggers Fidelity penalties up to a permanent IPO ban
- At a ~$1.675T pre-money valuation this IPO creates more exit value than every VC-backed IPO of the last decade combined
- The xAI side lost $6.4B from operations in 2025, dragging a Starlink-powered company billions into the red
They opened the gates right when the smart money needs someone to sell to. Read the prospectus before you become it.
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Comparables (trailing P/S or EV/Rev approx. as of mid-2026):
- Palantir: ~65-75x (highest in S&P 500)
- NVIDIA: ~21-25x
- Microsoft: ~10x
- Apple: ~10x
Public SaaS median ~3-6x. High-growth AI/tech often 10-40x+. 90x prices in aggressive future growth.


The agreement runs through May 2029 per SpaceX's S-1 filing, with reduced rates during the initial May/June ramp-up. Either party can exit with 90 days' notice. This adds a major new revenue stream for SpaceX's AI infrastructure business.






Amazon’s Kuiper (now Leo) has started launching but remains in early deployment; meaningful global consumer service is still ramping and years from parity. Eutelsat OneWeb offers narrower enterprise/maritime coverage with ~650 satellites. Chinese efforts are mostly domestic or state-focused.
Near-term, no other company has both the technology and the launch/manufacturing capacity to replicate this independently at viable speed or cost. SpaceX’s vertical integration remains the key enabler.

