About 20 New Billionaires Could Be Minted by 3 Mega-I.P.O.s

The back-to-back-to-back round of massive public offerings that began this week is going to make a select group of employees of three technology firms very, very rich.

SpaceX, the rocket and artificial intelligence company, said on Thursday it had raised about $75 billion from its offering, putting its valuation at $1.77 trillion. Anthropic, the A.I. start-up that makes the Claude chatbot, and its ChatGPT-making rival, OpenAI, have also both filed to go public soon. Each of those companies has an estimated valuation approaching $1 trillion.

The mega-listings are projected to create over 20 new billionaires from the companies’ ranks of current and former employees, according to an analysis for The New York Times by Sacra, a private markets research company.

They will have access to publicly traded shares that can more easily be turned into very real spending power. (At least, they will at the conclusion of lockup periods, during which company insiders are not allowed to sell their shares.)

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/business/economy/spacex-openai-anthropic-billionaires-ipos.html