Just 10 days after the company’s blockbuster IPO, buyers of its initial public shares are in the red.

Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX tech conglomerate plunged 16% Monday to close below their price on June 12, the date of the company’s massive initial public offering.

It was its third-straight trading day of declines for a company that just 10 days ago orchestrated the largest IPO ever.

At Monday’s closing price of $154.60, the average investor who bought SpaceX shares on the open market after its debut has now seen most of their gains disappear, market data shows.

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    I mean, wasn’t this the plan all along? Makia bunch of theoretical money off the IPO and just fuck you if you were foolish enough to waste your money buying in?

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      The plan was to get retail investors (idiots) to pay loans and the original investors with cold hard cash.

      Now the retail (idiots) investors own stock in a business that makes no money and is burning piles of money monthly.

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        No way man, they’re gonna make space datacenters…

        You know, the things famously resource intensive massive but in space. They can’t lose.

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          don’t forget that as hard as it is to get massive amounts of electricity into a space vehicle, it’s even harder to radiate heat away into a vacuum. space may be cold, but it doesn’t conduct or absorb heat well.