SpaceX soars. Get out while you can, folks!

Much has been made of Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire following SpaceX's trading debut. But how will he handle bringing the secretive company into the glaring light?

Days after tipping a bucket on the SpaceX IPO in Crikey, this embarrassed long-term owner of one SpaceX share is happy to acknowledge that the newly minted paper trillionaire Elon Musk has so far proved the sceptics wrong, after SpaceX's surprisingly smooth and strong trading debut on Friday night.

But having made so many outlandish promises and predictions in order to extract US$75 billion from public investors, Musk now has to steer the notoriously secretive SpaceX forward in the full glare of public markets exposure -- with quarterly reporting, annual meetings and a daily measurement of the share price.