In 1995, the Netscape IPO turned a conviction held by a small number of evangelists into a consensus held by an entire civilization. The SpaceX IPO will do the same thing for the next chapter of human civilization.
Scott Pelley came to view himself as standing above the company. When a star decides he is the institution, management has only two choices. Capitulate and lose the company, or act and absorb the noise. Bari Weiss acted.
The SpaceX IPO is oversubscribed. The institutional money already knows what it is buying. The question is whether the rest of America does. This is not just an investment argument. It is a civic one.