When SpaceX reports its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday, Elon Musk may be fielding questions about orbital AI data centers and Starlink margins. But its army of retail investors has other priorities.
On the company's online question platform — the same kind Tesla uses before its calls — the most popular submissions include more footage of Starship's Human Landing System, whether Asteroid, the company's Shiba Inu mascot, should take a larger role in education and charity, and one memorable request: "Can we paint the rocket pink?" Another investor suggested selling sponsorships for individual heat-shield tiles so fans could fly their names into space.
SpaceX reserved roughly 30% of its IPO shares for retail investors, one of the largest individual-investor allocations in a major US listing. The stock, which lost more than half its value from its post-IPO intraday peak, has not dimmed enthusiasm — though questions about finances were relatively unpopular, and the timing for the AI business to pay for itself ranked 183rd in popularity on Friday.
One investor did strike a more philosophical note, asking why anyone should buy shares if, as Musk has said, AI and robotics will soon make money largely irrelevant. The question received no upvotes.
