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Amanda Gerut

Elon Musk can’t sell a single SpaceX share for a year—then all the locks crack open at once

Man in a black hat and jacket (Credit: Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Unless you’ve been on the moon, you know that Elon Musk’s SpaceX just pulled off the biggest IPO of all time and raised about $86 billion in its public stock offering last month.

The reusable rocket maker did it while selling only a tiny sliver—between 4% and 5%—of its stock. The other 95%—which consists of about 12.5 billion shares—is being kept behind bars in one of the most byzantine, complicated lock-up schedules in history.

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