Calling all SpaceX Millionaires!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many senior engineers (below leadership level) are clearing $100M. $12M is on the really low end for anyone there since 2021 let alone exec level - are you sure he’s senior leadership?

No they’re not. You clearly know nothing about stock options, RSUs, vesting, and mainstream practices within the tech industry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many senior engineers (below leadership level) are clearing $100M. $12M is on the really low end for anyone there since 2021 let alone exec level - are you sure he’s senior leadership?

No they’re not. You clearly know nothing about stock options, RSUs, vesting, and mainstream practices within the tech industry.

To be so wrong yet so confident. Believe whatever makes you feel better I guess?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many senior engineers (below leadership level) are clearing $100M. $12M is on the really low end for anyone there since 2021 let alone exec level - are you sure he’s senior leadership?

No they’re not. You clearly know nothing about stock options, RSUs, vesting, and mainstream practices within the tech industry.

To be so wrong yet so confident. Believe whatever makes you feel better I guess?

This has already been reported by NY Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/technology/spacex-ipo-employee-millionaires.html

More than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees are likely to become millionaires in the I.P.O., according to an analysis by Hill.com, a San Francisco-based investment platform. Of those, about 400 are expected to earn $100 million or more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH has a senior leadership position with SpaceX and worked there since January 2021. He has been granted 235,000 shares total since starting and is fully vested in 75,000 of those shares which are now worth a little over $12 million!! Awesome day for our family.

Curious to hear what others have experienced either as an employee or early investor?

Ah, so there are 8 figure earners on here!

[Anonymous]

There's a lockout period before insiders can sell their shares. Price will almost certainly drop before lockout opens up. Price will drop further when insiders start selling their shares. You'll make a lot of money, but expect price to drop well below $100/share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH has a senior leadership position with SpaceX and worked there since January 2021. He has been granted 235,000 shares total since starting and is fully vested in 75,000 of those shares which are now worth a little over $12 million!! Awesome day for our family.

Curious to hear what others have experienced either as an employee or early investor?

Is he remote, or do you live outside the DMV?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have zero shares, barely managed this year after my DH had a long term layoff. Eff off.

Sounds like you and DH need to be smarter and adapt better!

Sounds like you need to not be an arrogant pig and realize that not everyone has had the same life experiences as you and some things are not in your control. NP.

+1

What an ignorant prick.

I'm OP: I moved to this country with no family, no connections, and just one suitcase. I got a scholarship to a good school because I worked hard. I worked non-stop throughout college while my parents were divorced, mother SAHM and my father is an alcoholic who abused me. The UMC white kids at my school partied and never worked the work I did. It paid off and now I'm supposed to feel pity for some random person who's jealous of hard work?

This is what America was made on and I will always remain grateful for this country that lifted my family out of GENERATIONAL poverty at the likes an American cannot comprehend.

[Anonymous]

I can’t follow this space stuff because I don’t have any interest. And so I don’t get what he’s doing? What are the goals ? I thought NASA was good enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many senior engineers (below leadership level) are clearing $100M. $12M is on the really low end for anyone there since 2021 let alone exec level - are you sure he’s senior leadership?

No they’re not. You clearly know nothing about stock options, RSUs, vesting, and mainstream practices within the tech industry.

To be so wrong yet so confident. Believe whatever makes you feel better I guess?

This has already been reported by NY Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/technology/spacex-ipo-employee-millionaires.html

More than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees are likely to become millionaires in the I.P.O., according to an analysis by Hill.com, a San Francisco-based investment platform. Of those, about 400 are expected to earn $100 million or more.

There are about 1200 current directors, VPs, C-suites at the 22k SpaceX. As a 20 year old company, many of the largest stakeholders are people who came and went over that span -- those are the 4400.

The actual engineers doing technical work will get a cool t-shirt.

This is how it has been in the Valley since the dot.com fiasco minted millionaire secretaries and FB mural painter -- VC and founders realized what they were giving away and tightened the reigns (and of course dilution has come to bare a lot more).

I guess its better than the hamfisted Zynga clawback: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2011/11/10/zynga-wants-employee-shares-back

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have zero shares, barely managed this year after my DH had a long term layoff. Eff off.

Sounds like you and DH need to be smarter and adapt better!

Sounds like you need to not be an arrogant pig and realize that not everyone has had the same life experiences as you and some things are not in your control. NP.

+1

What an ignorant prick.

I'm OP: I moved to this country with no family, no connections, and just one suitcase. I got a scholarship to a good school because I worked hard. I worked non-stop throughout college while my parents were divorced, mother SAHM and my father is an alcoholic who abused me. The UMC white kids at my school partied and never worked the work I did. It paid off and now I'm supposed to feel pity for some random person who's jealous of hard work?

This is what America was made on and I will always remain grateful for this country that lifted my family out of GENERATIONAL poverty at the likes an American cannot comprehend.

Wow, OP, so you are ALSO a high-earning rocket engineer or similar, just like your $12M DH??

Or did you just marry into wealth? I am honestly not sure what your hard work and academic success means to your DH's payday...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s kid got a job there a few years out of college as an engineer. I assume they are now a multimillionaire?! Wow.

SpaceX is known to be a sweatshop, and actually pays its engineer below market rate (with like an Amazon level of equity like $250k)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1rrej5c/is_spacexs_burnout_high_turnover_work_culture_bad/

If they were there in 2005 or so and STILL there, yes, they could have real equity and be millionaires! When did they go to college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t follow this space stuff because I don’t have any interest. And so I don’t get what he’s doing? What are the goals ? I thought NASA was good enough.

NASA is being privatized because people think private companies can do it better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s kid got a job there a few years out of college as an engineer. I assume they are now a multimillionaire?! Wow.

SpaceX is known to be a sweatshop, and actually pays its engineer below market rate (with like an Amazon level of equity like $250k)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1rrej5c/is_spacexs_burnout_high_turnover_work_culture_bad/

If they were there in 2005 or so and STILL there, yes, they could have real equity and be millionaires! When did they go to college?

My kid works for Amazon with friends that works for SpaceX. They say Amazon is easy living compared to SpaceX..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t follow this space stuff because I don’t have any interest. And so I don’t get what he’s doing? What are the goals ? I thought NASA was good enough.

NASA is being privatized because people think private companies can do it better.

"People" like Elon Musk who, coincidentally, became a trillionaire.

This isn't based on a public survey.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have zero shares, barely managed this year after my DH had a long term layoff. Eff off.

Sounds like you and DH need to be smarter and adapt better!

Sounds like you need to not be an arrogant pig and realize that not everyone has had the same life experiences as you and some things are not in your control. NP.

+1

What an ignorant prick.

I'm OP: I moved to this country with no family, no connections, and just one suitcase. I got a scholarship to a good school because I worked hard. I worked non-stop throughout college while my parents were divorced, mother SAHM and my father is an alcoholic who abused me. The UMC white kids at my school partied and never worked the work I did. It paid off and now I'm supposed to feel pity for some random person who's jealous of hard work?

This is what America was made on and I will always remain grateful for this country that lifted my family out of GENERATIONAL poverty at the likes an American cannot comprehend.

Yes, I see the disdain and condescension towards white Americans when I go to Ashburn and encounter South Asians behaving badly. The earlier wave of South Asian immigrants were mannered and intelligent. The new wave intends to bypass the usual tough route taken by every single immigrant group who has arrived. The European Americans broke their backs creating this country over several centuries, as did all other immigrant groups. Obviously the African Americans did not come over of their own free will. Your new group is aggressive, with a really bad attitude. Your comment above exemplifies what I'm talking about.