Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX), aka SpaceX, zoomed 24% higher soon after the start of its first IPO trading day on Friday. Shares of the rocket and artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk began trading at about 11:46 am EST and quickly gained speed.

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The most interesting aspect of this IPO may not be what SpaceX has built. It is the fact that two rational, informed traders study the same prospectus and arrive at valuations nearly a trillion dollars apart. That tension is the story. Because nobody can agree whether it is visionary or delusional, and the gap between those two positions is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars.

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