Three companies' $5.2T combined valuation tops 45 years of US tech IPOs
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-22
A striking valuation comparison going viral: SpaceX at $2T, Anthropic at $2T, and OpenAI at $1.2T — $5.2T combined. From 1980 to 2025, the aggregate first-day valuations of all 3,365 US tech company IPOs totaled only $4.1T. Three private-market valuations now exceed 45 years of tech IPO first-day totals, illustrating just how extreme this round of AI asset pricing has become.
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