{"id":2935,"date":"2026-10-19T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/10\/19\/elon-musk-says-he-plans-to-give-every-child-in-america-one-of-his-spacex-shares-next-year\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:04:29","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-plans-to-give-every-child-in-america-one-of-his-spacex-shares-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/10\/19\/elon-musk-says-he-plans-to-give-every-child-in-america-one-of-his-spacex-shares-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he plans to give every child in America one of his SpaceX shares next year."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5886.jpg\" alt=\" Elon Musk says he plans to give every child in America one of his SpaceX shares next year.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Monday morning. I opened X, and a post stopped me.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk says he plans to give every child in America one of his SpaceX shares next year.<\/p>\n<p>It is a pledge. We still need to see the details.<br \/>\nWhether it happens or not, it made me think.<\/p>\n<p>As a father and an entrepreneur, the share did not interest me. <\/p>\n<p>The conversation it could start did.<\/p>\n<p>The family is watching a rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p>The child asks: \u201cDo I own a tiny part of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when they launch a rocket, do we make money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now there is a conversation worth having.<\/p>\n<p>A launch costs money.<br \/>\nThe company needs customers.<br \/>\nGetting paid does not mean making a profit.<br \/>\nOwning a share means sharing the uncertainty too.<\/p>\n<p>All from a question a child actually wanted answered.<\/p>\n<p>We spend years preparing our children for their first salary.<br \/>\nStudy hard. Develop skills. Find a good job.<\/p>\n<p>That advice matters. But one day they will be offered equity, buy their first investment, or put their savings into a business.<\/p>\n<p>Will ownership feel familiar by then?<br \/>\nOr will they learn it for the first time, with real money at stake?<\/p>\n<p>Our children hear us say, \u201cI work hard for this money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They should also hear us explain what we do with it, and why.<\/p>\n<p>What was the first business or investment decision you explained to your children?<br \/>\nKrishna Lakamsani | Serial Entrepreneur | Investor | I write at the intersection of AI, capital, and the future of the human job market, sharing my life lessons, reflections, and honest takes from the founder-investor\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning. I opened X, and a post stopped me. Elon Musk says he plans to give every child in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}