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Happy Friday. This IPO is supposedly finally happening! Wait, what’s the buy-in price?
In this issue:
🚀 Did You Get Your Ticket for the Moon Shot?
⚡️ The Giants Found Guilty for Doomscrolling
🛹 Zuckerberg: “Hello, Fellow Small Business Owners”
🤖 Time to Renew Your Reddit License. Papers, Please.
🎙️ Video of the Day
Well, even if we can’t afford to get in on the ground floor, maybe we’ll make a little chump change as techno-slaves on Mars. One can hope. Let’s get into it.
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🚀 SpaceX Is Finally Going Public (Maybe)
Okay, so you know how everyone's been waiting for SpaceX to go public for like... forever? Well, it's finally happening. Elon Musk's rocket company is reportedly filing for an IPO as soon as this week, and they're aiming to raise somewhere between $70 billion and $75 billion. That would make it the biggest IPO in history, crushing Saudi Aramco's $29.4 billion record from 2019.
The company is currently valued around $1.25 trillion (yes, with a T), and they might be shooting for a $1.75 trillion valuation when they go public. To put that in perspective, that's bigger than Tesla's current market cap. SpaceX made $16 billion in revenue last year, mostly thanks to Starlink, which is basically internet beamed down from space.
Space stocks are already popping off in anticipation. Rocket Lab, Planet Labs, and Intuitive Machines all jumped on the news. Even EchoStar, which has a deal to receive SpaceX stock in exchange for spectrum rights, shot up about 8%. Some analysts are comparing this to Netscape's IPO in 1995, which basically kicked off the entire dot-com boom. If you're interested in the space industry but can't wait for SpaceX itself, these related stocks might be worth watching. Just remember: hype can fade fast, so do your homework before you buy anything.
🎤 What do you think?
Are you trying to catch the SpaceX IPO wave?
⚡️ The Tech Ticker
Meta and Google were found liable in the first social media addiction trial, a landmark case that could reshape how platforms design their products.
OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky has died at 43 after a secret battle with cancer, leaving behind a platform that made him a $4.7 billion fortune.
Sony and Honda are giving up on their Afeela EV project after Honda's tariff-driven pivot left the joint venture without the tech and assets it needed.
Apple is bringing ads to Apple Maps starting this summer, letting businesses bid on search placement in the U.S. and Canada.
The Fundrise Innovation Fund (VCX) crashed 45% in a single day after retail investors learned the hard way that paying hand-and-foot for pre-IPO AI companies was maybe a little aggressive.
🛹 Meta’s Real Big on Small Business
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new company-wide initiative called Meta Small Business, and honestly, it's kind of a big deal for anyone thinking about starting a side hustle or already running one.
Here's the gist: over 250 million small businesses worldwide already use Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to connect with customers. Now Meta wants to build AI tools specifically designed to help these businesses grow. Zuck's pitch is basically that AI should make it easier than ever for regular people to start and run businesses, and he wants Meta to be the platform that makes that happen.
"In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses," Zuckerberg wrote in his internal memo. He's got some of Meta's top executives leading this, including Dina Powell McCormick and Naomi Gleit.
Why should you care? If you're running a small business or thinking about starting one, this could mean better (and probably cheaper) tools for marketing, customer service, and sales. For anyone watching the ticker, this signals Meta is doubling down on its bread and butter: small business advertising. While everyone's obsessed with the metaverse and AI chatbots, Meta's real money still comes from those millions of small businesses paying for ads. If these new tools help more businesses succeed, that's more ad dollars flowing into Meta's pocket. Something to think about if you're considering adding META to your portfolio.
🤖 All Eyes on AI
Reddit is rolling out human verification requirements for accounts suspected of being bots, using biometrics to prove there's a real person.
Microsoft is dialing back Copilot AI integrations in Windows apps like Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool after intensely negative user feedback.
Google is launching Search Live globally, letting users have real-time conversations with their phone camera pointed at whatever they need help with.
Spotify is beta testing an "Artist Profile Protection" feature that lets artists approve or decline releases before they land on their profiles.
OpenAI is set to discontinue the Sora video platform app, barely a year after the AI video generator made its controversial debut.
🤡 Meme of the Week
📺 Video of the Day: Owners Only Launch
Our parent company Invested Inc. is launching a new podcast called Owners Only, all about how some of the biggest content creators out there are building their followings into fully functioning businesses.
The first guest? Zach Justice.
⭐️ What did you think of today's edition?
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Till next time,
— Brandon and Blake
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