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Former SpaceX employee went from earning $28 an hour to becoming a millionaire

SpaceX’s historic debut on Wall Street sent the company’s valuation soaring, turning employee stock holdings into fortunes and making a former welder a millionaire

Musk became the first Trillionaire on the planet as SpaceX stock closed up 19.34% in its Wall Street debut

Elon Musk promised to take humans to Mars. The stock opened at $150, rose as high as $176.52 during trading, and closed at $161.11. The valuation of Elon Musk’s company is now approaching $2 trillion