Back in 2001, his plan to start a rocket company seemed so misguided, his friends urged him to abandon it.Last Friday, Elon Musk listed SpaceX on the Nasdaq at an initial valuation of $1.77 trillion. The largest flotation in history, it blasted Musk into the stratosphere as the world’s first trillionaire.
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