<story><title>Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/spacex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Igglyboo</author><text>Does anyone think it&amp;#x27;s crazy that a glorified messaging app is valued at $16B and that SpaceX, a company that puts things into orbit and literally does rocket science, is only $10B?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure WhatsApp is an outlier because I see it brought up all the time when the topic of valuation arises but it still seems like SpaceX should be worth a lot more to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/spacex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>habosa</author><text>We live in a strange time when a company that has successfully flown useful cargo into space on their own hardware has a valuation around 50% of the most popular messaging app.</text></comment>