How Elon has "engineered" the SpaceX IPO to ...

EDIT: this post got banned on wallstreetbets and got me banned too, so I have modified it so that it includes NO opinions, just facts summarising the video.
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Came across a video breaking this down and it actually made me sit up. Wanted to know what you guys think.

https://youtu.be/sYA-z0Y8WRQ?si=jaXbi-sSwGXRcTrd

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Key points: the video says that the IPO is structured to spike right after listing and then...

First, why insiders NEED this to work. Follow the chain of all-stock mergers, zero cash changing hands:

• Musk buys Twitter for $44B (2022) → renames it X → value roughly halves → merges X into his AI company xAI (X investors get xAI stock) → then has SpaceX acquire xAI.

The four-step playbook:

1. Artificial scarcity - SpaceX floats less than 5% of shares. Normal is 15–20%. Small supply.
2. Manufactured demand - Retail gets a 30% allocation vs the usual ~10%. Branded "Main Street over Wall Street."
3. Forced buying - New Nasdaq "fast entry" rule drops the seasoning period from ~365 days to 15 trading days. Once SpaceX enters the Nasdaq-100, every index fund tracking it has to buy regardless of price.
4. Insiders cash out - Some early investors can sell before the standard 180-day lockup. They sell into the spike while your 401(k) index fund buys the top.

The part that should bother everyone: Nasdaq is both the exchange AND the index provider. Per Reuters, Musk reportedly conditioned listing on Nasdaq on getting fast-tracked into the index (point 3 above). And index rule changes don't need SEC approval!