Cashing in on SpaceX: ‘Every chance I get, I’ll sell a little more’0

• Gear / Gear News and Events, General, News, Newsletters, Security / Security News
• August 6, 2026

Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket. He was paid partly in stock – a common trade-off at start-ups as a hiring incentive. Some 17 years on, those 200,000 shares he was given are worth about $23m (£17m) – and the 63-year-old says he’s