Michael Burry is ‘tempted’ to face Elon Musk’s wrath, but says SpaceX put options aren’t enticing enough for ‘fundamentally a small space company’

Michael Burry attends the "The Big Short" New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City. (Credit: Jim Spellman—WireImage)

Investor Michael Burry—of Big Short fame—considered antagonizing the richest man on the planet over the IPO of his latest company.

Burry said he had been tempted to bet against SpaceX, the rocket company owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

SpaceX went public last week, and its stock has already gained more than 25%. The company’s valuation since then has soared close to $3 trillion, even overtaking Jeff Bezos’s Amazon at one point.

But for every optimist backing Musk’s bid to establish a human colony on Mars is an investor on earth wondering if the plan will ever take off. Burry, in typical form, was open in asking that question.