15 Jun 2026
The Market Crowned a Trillionaire and Caged the Boy It Trained | by Nate Erskine | Jun, 2026
On Friday, June 12, 2026, two headlines sat stacked on top of each other in my LinkedIn feed. They weren’t a moral test, but they functioned as one. The first: SpaceX surged 19% in its Nasdaq debut, closing at a $2.1 trillion market cap and making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The second, directly beneath it: a federal appeals court rejected Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to overturn his…
