SpaceX shares soon on the stock exchange: space company shocks with new Mars bonus for Elon Musk

• Musk bonus depends on Mars colonization
• Confidential Registration Statement Information
• One million people on Mars as a goal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk apparently ties its future even more closely to Mars. As Reuters reports, citing confidential information from SpaceX, the company’s board of directors has approved a new compensation plan that ties Musk’s pay directly to the colonization of the red planet. Accordingly, the tech billionaire should receive additional shares if SpaceX achieves ambitious goals in valuation, space technology and Mars colonization.

Billion bonus only for Mars success

According to Reuters, the new compensation package is based on several milestones. Musk will receive 200 million voting preferred shares if SpaceX achieves certain valuation targets. The highest hurdle is a company valuation of $7.5 trillion.

But that’s not enough. To unlock full compensation, SpaceX would also have to establish “a permanent human settlement on Mars with at least one million residents,” writes Reuters. In addition, further bonuses are linked to the development of a space-based computing infrastructure that can deliver at least 100 terawatts of computing power.

According to Reuters, the information comes from a confidential registration statement that SpaceX is said to have filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The documents provide the first detailed insight into the company’s financial structure before a possible IPO.

Mars colonization as Musk’s core vision

The idea of ​​colonizing Mars has been with Elon Musk since he founded SpaceX in 2002. According to Teslarati, Musk has viewed the colonization of Mars as a kind of “insurance against the extinction of humanity” for years.

Musk had already presented his long-term vision at the International Astronautical Congress in 2017. At that time, he described a self-sustaining city on Mars that would need around a million people to be sustainably viable. This exact number now appears again in the new compensation model.

Central to this project is the Starship rocket, which is still in development. Musk has stated several times in the past that transportation costs to Mars would have to fall to less than $100,000 per ton to make mass migration economically feasible.

SpaceX before historic IPO? – What this means for investors

According to Teslarati, SpaceX is currently preparing an IPO around June 28 – Elon Musk’s birthday. The targeted valuation is said to be around $1.75 trillion.

With projects such as satellite launches for the US Space Force, contracts for Mars rover technology and new software and AI initiatives, SpaceX is now one of the most important space and defense companies in the USA. The possible IPO could give the company a public market value for the first time – and at the same time show how much Musk’s Mars vision is actually worth to investors.

For investors, SpaceX’s planned IPO could be one of the most exciting new issues in recent years. At the same time, the new compensation model shows that the company continues to focus heavily on long-term visions of the future rather than short-term profits. Investors would not only invest in a space company, but also in Musk’s ambitious goal of colonizing Mars. This could offer great growth opportunities – but also significant risks, as many of the technological and economic goals are still years or even decades away.

Bettina Schneider, editorial team at finanzen.net

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