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Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch 1:32 PM PDT · June 17, 2026 Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in the largest IPO ever. SpaceX announced the appointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.…
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1:11 PM PDT · June 16, 2026 SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading.…





