He was present at the moment SpaceX nearly imploded. Now, private equity investor Antonio Gracias stands to pocket nearly $90 billion from his sizable bet on Elon Musk's marquee company. On June 3, SpaceX set a $135 share price for its initial public offering that would value the company at $1.

Elon Musk's rocket company kicked off its investor roadshow on Thursday with a major party at JPMorgan's New York HQ.

By Tatiana Bautzer and Nupur Anand NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuters) - Wall Street's investment banking giants are feting hopeful buyers of Elon Musk's SpaceX at splashy events that kicked off on Thursday, offering something most banks can't: access to the rocketmaker's top executives ahead of its blockbuster IPO next week.

When SpaceX shares make their public debut next week, they will be trading under the ticker “SPCX.” Until recently, that ticker belonged to Tuttle Capital Management’s SPAC and New Issue ETF.

Two companies will win regardless of the stock's direction: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

SpaceX IPO: Trading under the symbol SPCX, SpaceX has picked a handful of brokerage firms to distribute shares in the IPO to retail customers in the U.S.

SpaceX's first employee, who first met Elon Musk in the early 2000s, is now a billionaire himself but no longer at the same company. Leaving the tech giant in 2020, he has since become the founder, CEO and CTO of a startup valued at $4.