Musk Pledges One SpaceX Share to Every US Child Starting Next Year
Sourced from 6 publications
- •Musk pledged one SpaceX share to every American child starting next year, a promise valued at approximately $10.7 billion based on current share prices.
- •Trump announced the shares would be distributed through Trump Accounts, though the precise mechanism and eligibility criteria remain entirely unspecified.
- •Brad Gerstner, the Trump Accounts architect, is separately working to expand the program to all Americans under 40, according to the New York Post.
- •The pledge followed Anthropic's commitment of 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, though FoxBusiness reports Anthropic has not said whether it will distribute shares directly to Americans.
- •No legal framework, timeline details, or qualification standards have been disclosed for either initiative.
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