SpaceX reportedly in talks for secondary sale at $800B valuation, which would make it America’s most valuable private company

According to the WSJ, SpaceX is launching a secondary stock merchantability that would worth Elon Musk’s rocket shaper astatine $800 billion — treble its caller $400 cardinal valuation and surpassing OpenAI to assertion the rubric of America’s astir invaluable backstage company.

SpaceX has not responded to a petition for comment; the Journal not did study connected the standard of the offering.

The eye-popping fig reflects however regular mega-valuations person go wrong backstage markets. OpenAI stands astatine $500 billion, portion Anthropic reportedly surged past period to $350 cardinal pursuing large investments from Microsoft and Nvidia, up from $183 cardinal conscionable months earlier.

These companies tin present execute public-market-scale valuations portion remaining private, fueled by secondary income that supply liquidity without the scrutiny of quarterly net reports.

SpaceX, founded successful 2002, dominates commercialized rocket launches and operates Starlink, its outer net work with implicit 8 cardinal customers globally arsenic of November.