<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 9:43 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> the most overpriced company of them all is SpaceX.</b></font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Checking the stock price this morning, it seems my hypothetical<br>
strategy - "buy at the IPO then sell within a day, because within a<br>
week it's going down" would have worked. </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yes but if you're a small investor a<span class="gmail_default" style="">nd</span> you don't have a friend who owes you a favor <span class="gmail_default" style="">and</span> is in charge of a large <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">m</span>utual, pension or hedge fund<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">then </span>your chances of actually being able to buy any SpaceX at the IPO price of $135 would have been very low; when trading actually began on June 12 the stock opened at $150<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> and at the end of the day it was at $161. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Just a few days later <span class="gmail_default" style="">S</span>paceX bought the software company "<span class="gmail_default" style="">C</span>ursor" <span class="gmail_default" style="">for </span>$60 billion in <u>an all stock trade</u>, that is not illegal but it is unusual coming so close after the IPO<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> and it<span class="gmail_default" style=""> just </span>doesn't smell quite right to some people. Did SpaceX acquire Cursor because Cursor is worth $60 billion, or because SpaceX's brand new public stock gave it a convenient way to pay <span class="gmail_default" style="">a </span>$60 billion <span class="gmail_default" style="">bill </span>without writing a $60 billion check?</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div></div></div>