Musk's team is framing this as a humble celebration among peers—a man of the people who wanted to ring in his historic achievement alongside the engineers and employees who made it possible, not holed up in some penthouse but right there at Starbase with his siblings.
While Musk was reportedly 'chilling with engineers' down in Texas, his executive team was busy working through Manhattan's most exclusive venues—JP Morgan HQ followed by Zero Bond—because apparently celebrating a $2 trillion IPO requires more than one ritzy location.
SpaceX closed at $161.11 per share on its first day of trading, 19% above the $135 IPO target price, valuing the company at over $2 trillion and making it the sixth most valuable company globally. The celebration at Starbase occurred last Friday, June 12, 2026, with Musk photographed alongside siblings Kimball and Tosca.
Love him or hate him, you can't deny Elon Musk just made history—and he made sure everyone knew it by throwing a multi-city victory lap that would make most Hollywood premieres look tame. The man who promised to take us to Mars is now worth enough to buy a small country.
Elon Musk has officially crossed into territory no human being has ever reached before—and he's celebrating in style. The Tesla founder, 52, became the world's first-ever trillionaire last Friday after SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO shattered Wall Street records. The aerospace powerhouse began trading on the Nasdaq and closed at $161.11 per share—skyrocketing 19% above its initial public offering price of $135 and valuing the company at a jaw-dropping $2 trillion.
By Monday, SpaceX shares had climbed another 20%, cementing the company's position as the sixth most valuable corporation on Earth. But instead of jetting off to some private island or booking out an entire resort, Musk chose to mark the occasion with the people who helped build his rocket empire from the ground up. Sources confirmed to Page Six that the freshly minted trillionaire celebrated at SpaceX's Starbase facility in southern Texas last Friday evening—ringing a ceremonial stock market bell alongside employees and engineers who've been with him through countless launches, explosions, and near-bankruptcies.
"He's low-key a man of the people and wants to chill with other engineers," one insider told Page Six, explaining Musk's decision to keep the celebration intimate despite his newfound stratospheric wealth. Photographers captured Musk at the festivities alongside siblings Kimball and Tosca Musk, proving that even when you're the richest person in recorded human history, family apparently still matters. The party didn't stop there—SpaceX executives moved the celebration to Manhattan following the Texas bash.
Sources say they toasted their achievements at ritzy members club Zero Bond in NoHo, complete with "plenty of glamour and entertainment." Before that revelry kicked off, they'd already partied at JP Morgan Headquarters, because apparently nothing screams 'space exploration milestone' like celebrating inside a major banking institution's headquarters. Meanwhile, employees from xAI—SpaceX's artificial intelligence subsidiary—gathered for cocktails and dancing at The Yacht Club in Chelsea, ensuring no corner of Musk's empire was left out of the festivities.
"That's what SpaceX is all about—it's to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone," Musk proclaimed after ringing that ceremonial bell at Starbase. He added a promise to the public: "SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars and ultimately beyond." With his net worth now exceeding $1 trillion—and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin trailing in second and third place respectively, followed by Jeff Bezos at fourth and Mark Zuckerberg rounding out the top five—Musk has essentially printed money faster than his own rockets can leave Earth's atmosphere. SpaceX, which he founded back in 2002 with the ambitious goal of enabling humans to live on other planets, has officially become the crown jewel of his business empire.
