In this case, Elon has moved the wildly unprofitable XAI into SpaceX. SpaceX will IPO with a trillion dollar valuation, while only releasing a small number of shares for public trading.

Due to the high valuation, index funds are required to buy SpaceX stock, which Elon will presumably slowly sell them in order not to crash the stock. The funds will be left holding the stock, while eventually the price will crash, because the company will simply not make enough money to justify the valuation.

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andsoitis 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Elon will presumably slowly sell them in order not to crash the stock. The funds will be left holding the stock, while eventually the price will crash, because the company will simply not make enough money to justify the valuation.

Musk owns about 50% of SpaceX. You are saying he is planning to sell the vast majority of that holding at a gradual pace that will not be noticed by anyone but fast enough to get a high price?

	▲	karmakurtisaani 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sure there are multiple ways to profit from the situation. Even having just a small fraction of the shares publicly traded, while the index funds keep the price high is a huge win for him, as his net worth will be extreme on paper.