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While there are some<\/a> shocking<\/a> revelations<\/a> in SpaceX\u2019s S-1 as it gets ready to become a public company, Elon Musk\u2019s total control of the company perhaps isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n I could argue that the oddball provision where Elon Musk gets up to a billion more<\/em> shares to add to his already oversized, company-controlling cache once a million people are living on Mars (yes, really), is perhaps the most jaw-dropping. It is also fairly unserious. Musk controls and can vote those shares now, by the way.<\/p>\n But even a billion extra super-voting rights shares are immaterial in this company\u2019s setup because Musk is, by miles, the largest shareholder in the company.<\/p>\n He owns just under 850 million Class A shares, entitled to 1 vote per share, and another nearly 5.6 billion Class B shares, entitled to 10 votes per share. That includes the billion shares contingent on a million people living in a SpaceX company-town colony on Mars.<\/p>\n Sci-fi conditions aside, there are a handful of people who stand to benefit most should the SpaceX IPO be a success and the stock continue to do well in the future: the 5% shareholders. These are the people who hold at least 5% of the company.<\/p>\n While the company has not yet said how many shares it will sell or at what price, the whisper number on the street is that this IPO will raise a whopping $75 billion, with a post-money valuation of $1.7 trillion. At those numbers, even a 1% stake is worth $17 billion.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the rundown of who owns what. <\/p>\n Elon Musk<\/strong>, founder, CEO, CTO and chairman. Total SpaceX stock holdings: just over 6.42 billion shares.<\/strong><\/p>\n Antonio Gracias<\/strong>, investor and board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: just over 503.4 million shares<\/strong><\/p>\n Gracias is founder and CEO and of Valor Management and a long-time Musk friend, pro-Musk board member and financier. He was on Tesla\u2019s board from its startup days through the years after its IPO. He was also a board member of Musk\u2019s solar company Solar City during its controversial sale to Tesla<\/a>. He\u2019s backed and held board roles for Musk\u2019s Neuralink, including The Boring Company. He was also among the financiers that agreed to fund Musk\u2019s failed attempted<\/a> hostile takeover of OpenAI for $97 billion in early 2025.<\/p>\n Luke Nosek<\/strong>, investor and board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: nearly 33 million shares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Nosek is a co-founder of venture investment firm Gigafund, and a fellow PayPal mafia member. Nosek joined Peter Thiel at Founders Fund during its early days and led Founders first investment into Space X. He took a board seat, then, and has been on the board ever since. Gigafund also backs other Musk companies, The Boring Company and Neuralink.<\/p>\n Gwynne Shotwell<\/strong>, SpaceX COO. Total SpaceX stock holdings: nearly 12.6 million shares.<\/strong><\/p>\n Shotwell has been with SpaceX since 2002, and COO since since 2008. She\u2019s the aerospace engineer genius that runs day-to-day operations. In another age, with different majority founder, someone like Shotwell would have been granted co-founder status, and likely have a bigger stake in the company. However, it\u2019s hard to call her underpaid. For instance, in 2025, she received a large tranche of restricted stock units, bringing her total compensation to $85.8 million that year.<\/p>\n Bret Johnsen<\/strong>, CFO. Total SpaceX stock holdings: nearly 9.6 million shares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Bret Johnsen has been SpaceX\u2019s CFO since 2011. Prior to SpaceX he held CFO and financier roles in the semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n Ira Ehrenpreis<\/strong>, investor and board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: 809,050 shares.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ehrenpreis is a founder and managing member of VC firm DBL Partnershas. He\u2019s been on the SpaceX board Randy Glein<\/strong>, investor, board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: 277,800 shares.<\/p>\n Glein is co-founder and managing partner of DFJ Growth.<\/p>\n And around 400 other VCs.<\/strong> SpaceX has raised around $30 billion in private capital to date from hundreds of investors, according Pitchbook estimates. None of the others have a stake big enough to be reported, although, again, even a small percentage of the company should be worth billions at the debut.<\/p>\n The company did, however, share the prices that these investors paid for their shares. Series A investors paid $1 per share. Series F investors paid $7.50 and the final investors, in Series N, paid $270 a share.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n
since February 2026 and is also on Tesla\u2019s board.<\/p>\n