{"id":178355,"date":"2023-12-15T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/spacex-valuation-climbs-to-180-billion"},"modified":"2023-12-15T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:22:37","slug":"spacex-valuation-climbs-to-180-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/spacex-valuation-climbs-to-180-billion","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX valuation climbs to $180 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-valuation-climbs-to-180-billion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The valuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> SpaceX hit $180 billion based on an ongoing secondary share sale, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company is discussing an agreement with investors to sell stock from insiders in a purchase offer at $97 a share, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The offer does not include raising new capital, as the purchase offer represents a secondary sale of existing shares and is expected to close in January.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX typically performs these secondary rounds about twice a year, to give employees and other company shareholders a chance to sell stock. The latest valuation represents a 20% increase from SpaceX\u2019s previous high of $150 billion, which the company hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/13\/elon-musk-spacex-near-150-billion-valuation.html\">through a July secondary sale at $81 a share<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The valuation of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX hit $180 billion based on an ongoing secondary share sale, CNBC confirmed Wednesday. The company is discussing an agreement with investors to sell stock from insiders in a purchase offer at $97 a share, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The offer does not include raising new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}