Who will benefit most from SpaceX IPO? Mostly Elon — and a few from his inner circle

Luke Nosek, investor and board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: nearly 33 million shares.

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.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX COO. Total SpaceX stock holdings: nearly 12.6 million shares.

Shotwell has been with SpaceX since 2002, and COO since since 2008. She’s 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’s 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.

Bret Johnsen, CFO. Total SpaceX stock holdings: nearly 9.6 million shares.

Bret Johnsen has been SpaceX’s CFO since 2011. Prior to SpaceX he held CFO and financier roles in the semiconductor industry.

Ira Ehrenpreis, investor and board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: 809,050 shares.

Ehrenpreis is a founder and managing member of VC firm DBL Partnershas. He’s been on the SpaceX board
since February 2026 and is also on Tesla’s board.

Randy Glein, investor, board member. Total SpaceX stock holdings: 277,800 shares.

Glein is co-founder and managing partner of DFJ Growth.

And around 400 other VCs. 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.

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.