The crowd outside the Nasdaq on Friday morning skewed young, male, and anxious.
George Manchin, a 22-year-old prop trader from Hong Kong, had put in for “a little bit” of SpaceX stock—“like a car, but it’s gonna be more than a car now.” Behind him, Hemanth Golla, an early investor through his venture fund High Circle Capital, is sitting on $300 million worth.
“It’s very exciting,” Golla told Fortune at the scene outside Nasdaq in Manhattan. “Not just monetarily, but also it’s a historic moment. I’ve been a big fan of Elon, so it’s been an amazing journey so far.”
There were more than two people in astronaut outfits, bouncing around between different press interviews; there were teenage “retired crypto…
